The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS lid cortainly have appeared xpres ibuting to it a para- rlie letter of " MY. Saeepsh of Tuesday, was by a note which , nserted in our contemporary lined by us because it was accompanied considered insulting, not only to our ole newspaper press of Liverpool. from Mr. W. Lloyd, for the District Pro- selves, but to ti We have :eived 5 vident So____ We have also received £5 from Mrs. Prescot, and £5 from Miss Prescot, of Dalton, near Ormskirk, which we have handed over to the Rev. W. Falloon, for the distressed Irish, as re- Quested (Ebt 7Libtrpool *:)tanbarb. TUESDAY TANUARY 19, 1847 MORNING, el THE bulk 0: vinced me, by that assertion, that the education is suffi cient ; nay, even if you prove to me that thosesehools are well attended, and that a large per centage of the popula tion is instructed within them ; because I should state what is the course of education within those schools, and what is the class of teachers within them. I believe if you look to both one and the other, the quality of the education is most inefficient, and the character of the teachers most inadequate. Reading and writing, Gentle men, are but the means to education, not education itself ; they are but the instruments, and unless you teach the youth of this country how to use those instruments, you will indeed have effected but little in the real and genuine spirit of a Christian education." It is clear, from the above, that his lordship places considerable faith in the result of the training schools for teachers. What is the precise system which would meet his approbation, or how far it would be a system .of scriptural education, can only be gathered from the preceding quotation and the following reply to a question asked by an elector—" Will you support a system of national education , unshackled by the trammels of secta rians: Lord Lincoln said the *Lis was a question of far too .sm ?" our Commercial readers will require ipationof our space by the )logy tor tt I elsewhei g sup- plies of cotton :ception of ihe last, which we nnniprl from Rnatnr general a nature to be answered in a tangible and distinct shape. He could only say he was most anxious that any promotion of education by the state should be national in scope, in object, and in effect. (Applause.) He believed that the systems of education in Holland and Prussia, however good, for those countries, were by no means likely to be beneficially engrafted upon our system here ; and he doubted whether even the national system of , education in Ireland was practically applicable to this ,ccurate information. 1 country." If it- is at all likely to be as ti the soon s called to it the be ad to see that n confirmation or other , of the statements contained therein. We will add that the writers are gentlemen of great called fort .emarl ;ed of His lordship advocates the endowment of the WE mentioned, the week before last, that an Romish priesthood in Ireland on the grounds, influential gentleman of our town—Mr. Bramley- first, that it is unjust to place men having the Moore—had submitted to Government a plan of spiritual care of a community in a position of providing the means of national education which dependence upon that community, and subject to would obviate every reasonable objection which the temptation of pandering to, instead of reproving, could be urged against it from religious scruples. the vices of their flocks ; and secondly, that placing At that time we had not seen the communication the priesthood under the pay of the state, and of Mr. Bramley-Moore, or been made acquainted independent of the people, would induce them to with its details. We now give in another column train up the people in habits of loyalty to the the letter itself containing the whole plan, which sovereign. He is of opinion, however, that nothing will be found well worthy of attentive considera- can be done towards bringing the question to a tion by all classes of Christians and friends of settlement in the present state of opinion here, and education. I whilst objections continue to be urg,-4 We have our& g ect h b e objection against it. endowment by the Irish priesthood thems inst tin ____,„.. mat a Christian Go- and he informs us that it will not be attempted by ,aght itself to provide a religious educa- Lord John Russell at present. The effect of this 'ion for the people. In the present state of public declaration will probably be, to lose him the support opinion, however, and especially in the present lax of a large number of Protestants who might other state of our legislative principle, we cannot hope wise have voted for him in preference to a Whig for the full carrying out of our views as to the duty Radical. The following circular is being exten of the Government of this country. Probably the sively issued amongst the constituency : best settlement to which we can come of a question "TO THE ELECTORS OF MANCHESTER. won which so many bitter heart-burnings exist " FELLOW-PROTESTANTS, — Having called forth from amongst religionists, is that proposed by Mr. those who ask your votes an expression of opinion on w w t e a t t h w er ez t ns e ider to be the vital question at issue —viz., Bramley-Moore. Its adoption can offend no man's c, Co h nc r es e s o i n on ee s 7p w on e s s ar ay e t f o ar be we made o o t th a e t T e ur e c n h t. of conscience; and it affords a machinery, simple and Rome re straight-forward in its working, by which every course of truckling policy latterly pursued towards that church, has been no thi ng e l se b u t a ser i es o f concess i ons friend of ed uca ti on f or th e masses can b e assure d won by agitation, and yi e ld e d b y wea k ness ) we now th i nk that his money is expended in accordance with his it our duty to inf orm y ou , th a t we l oo k upon all the - own religious views. re plies as so unsatisfactory, that we cannot ad v i se ) - ou t o We feel bound in candour to state that a pla n , su pp or t any o f the present candidates—least of all Lord similar in its main principle, was brought before Lincoln. We did fondly hope that we should be able to our notice some years ago, which on ly th e f ac t o f support his lordship as a member of th e N a ti ona l Ch urc h , and as the son of one whose n ame ,:is illustrious f or hi s its being forwarded to us a non y mous l y prevented te disappointed.uncompromising our publishing. We subsequently were informed e say, the tat candourw we who was the author of it—a gentleman whose of his lordship's avowal, we are l e n b a l Y ig a ed in t u o sound Protestant principles would be acknowledged should deeply deplore his success, because itwould be looked upon as a sanction on the part of this great con name.by our readers, if we were allowed to refer to his stituency of a measure which we regard as alike false in His communication, however, did not con- s p v n er n e cte, a l i n e d fatal in policy. For our own part—if such tain the practical directions for its working,' and the 7 i t a w n old . rather be ?ilia-represented same valuable statistical facts, now given to the by an avowed Chartist. by marl whn hr.;. , - public by Mr. Bramlev-Moorp_ le the vernment ( THE speech addressed by Lord Lincoln good sense of the , its credulity would Tuesday evening, to his committee and friends in Manchester, is an important one on many accounts. In the first place, the talent which it displays is undeniable ; and marks out his lordship as one who must at some future, and perhaps an e ~cruished position amongst hi s fellow-countrymen.By those who had the fortune to be present, we are told that its effect was heightened by the graceful and gentlemanly ease of manner with which it was delivered. The chief importance, however, which attaches to it, is derived from the fact that we may regard Lord Lincoln as an almost authorized exponent of the views of a considerable portion of the Conservative )arty ; and that the candid and open manner in % laid down enables us to curacy, the direction in ch that party is progressing. We propose here to lay before our readers the views in question. But first we may offer a remark or two upon some passages which refer to the past. His lordship is at some pains to refute a charge brought against him, that he has been all his life an opponent of reform ; and in doing this, he lays himself and those with whom he has been acting in Parliament, open to a charge of something very occupy a distil those views a with tolerable ac " In the fii-st place," he says, " let me deal with the objection that I have been the opponent of all reforms, and that I am therefore unfitted to be a member for Man chester. Why, gentlemen, what has been the course pur sued during the whole time I held office in Sir Robert Peel's government? Did not that government, from the very date of its formation, commence that great economi cal reform which terminated in the repeal of the corn laws last year ?—(Cries of " Yes, yes," with some excla mations of " No.') I say, gentlemen, that this reform, — that this great economical reform, was not of recent date, but that it commenced in the year 1842; and, although occupying an inferior situation in that government, I gave to those measures my most earnest and most zealous sup port. (Great cheering from all sides.)" Clearly Lord Lincoln would not have it to be supposed that the commenced" their measures theirorobable termination. Rather, takes credit for the conclusion—the Repeal of ae Corn Laws—as having been precipitated by the Tariff Bill of 1842. But whilst urging forward that measure, how closely was the secret kept by Lord Lincoln and his colleagues that, it was only ch. cc -- of a " great economical amusing the agricultural mind with visions of cheap silks and cheap gloves, how energetically the charge was denied that the appli cation of the same principle would ultimately give us cheap corn ! There is something tricky ad mitted. The Protectionists have been tickled blindfold to the edge of the precipice --baited to their fall by sugar-plums and cheap bijouterie ; but his lordship and his colleagues were all along particularly wide awake, and perfectly aware of the gulf into which they were leading them ; for he quotes, in proof of this foreknowledge, a passage from his Address to the Electors of South Notting hamshire last spring, in which he thus scouts the commen ament Whils notion " that one fine morning he suddenly awoke and found himself a Corn-Law. Repealer "'Phis change has not come suddenly upon me. Three cars ago, my confidence in the principles of protection as greatly shaken ; last year I felt they had become in efensible. Still, looking to the mischief of any violent lock to part ttachment (not for the sake of the leaders f that pirty;but for the sake of public confidence), and onscious of the peculiar circumstances under which the resent parliament was elected, I felt anxious that, if pos ible,_ this great but ine v it a bl e c h ange s h ou ld b e post oned till after the next dissolution of parliament. This, however, I had firmly resolved—that I would never again you on the hustings, without an express I should be free to vote for the repeal of pear pc lorality involN n such a confession is not of a very high order. It is clearly not Lord Lincoln's opinion that a statesman need hoist his true colours. For three years he was a member of government pledged to protection of native he voted with that government r motion for the removal or the miti- riculture gation of that protection ; yet' he was all along resolved never again to appear upon the hustings without a stipulation that he should be free to directly opposite course to leave this painful subject, let us examine as much of his lordship's views with respect to the future as he is willing at present to permit us to see. With respect to the question of free trade, he is anxious to see it carried out, as far as is com patible with the preservation of the revenue at its necessary _ mount ; and it is not obscurely hinted that in order to effect his objects, he would not )ppose an increase of the income tax. He is opposed to an abolition of the malt duty, on the ground that it is imp oss ibl e t o ra i se the five mil lions per annum, which it brings in, by any tax which would be less sensibly felt by the community. The duty on tea he is ready to see reduced to Is. )er pound, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer can ow that no material loss of revenue would result. n the subject of education his lordship enters _, and boldly expresses his conviction that voluntary efforts are totally inoperative to fill up the great want existing, and that the duty of filling up that want must be performed by the state. It is not sufficient, he says, that schools may be provided ; the quality of the education supplied must be looked after. " Gentlemen, he remarked, you may point to the schools extending throughout the land ; you may prove to me that in almost every parish in this country a school many schools exist ; but I must declare that you have not con- rue let n the fortheo - min; s, with the e .eceived in manuscript, We 1 writers anticipate f spinners and manufae r, and we shall be those letters tive colors only to betray thein. The nation would make the one powerles make the other dangerou " (Signed on behalf of the Protestant Committee,) " HUGH STOWELL, President." His lordship is opposed to a ten hours' bill, and thinks that millowners and their operatives could come to an arrangement amongst themselves. His arguments upon this question are of the thorough free-trade sort, and will serve him with the employers of labour, although not with the employed. Upon the other topics remarked upon in the speech, and in reply to the numerous questions put to him, his lordship expressed the usual opinions entertained by the Conservative party. Upon Irish' policy, however, he sails as steadily in Daniel O'Connell's wake as that gentleman could desire. He is for granting to Ireland "an equality of civil rights," which, of course, means the more complete transfer of all corporate and other power into the hands of the Popish faction ; and intends trying to put down discord and sedition there by " depriving" the disturbers of " any excuse for such conduct !" The old tale. The genuine Peel policy. Give a sop to the seditious, coax him, flatter his vanity or his avarice, in order to convert him into a good subject. But the loyal man—the quiet and orderly subject--what of him ? He is disregarded, and perhaps visited with " heavy blows and great discouragement," because he is loyal, quiet, and orderly. Lord Lincoln's plan of pdtting down sedition is much the same as putting down bur glary by leaving your goods and chattels iii the front of your premises, in order to deprive the burglar of " any excuse" for breaking your door open to get them. -On the whole, the impression made by his lordship upon the constituency is said to have been a most favourable one ; but we must confess that our opinion of his chance of being returned is not advanced greatly by it. Lord Lincoln is too much a mere 'Whig to create any very deep attachment towards him in the minds of the mass of the Conservative party, especially those of the middle and. operative classes ; and the aristocratic Whigs of Manchester can do little without their own operatives and middle classes, who are, apparently, admirers of the Rochdale Quaker. A MOST important meeting of the peers, repre sentatives, and gentry of Ireland was held in Dublin on Thursday last, the result of which, and of the feeling which it proves to have been excited in the minds of our Hibernian fellow -countrymen by their present disastrous position, will, we trust, lead to measures of rational and practical improve ment of the social condition of the population. For years—nay, for centuries past, Ireland has been distracted by her contending factions. Her people have been afflicted with all the evils of feudalism, whilst they have enjoyed none of the solid comforts which that system, in countries differently situated, has produced. The dependence of her poor upon the owners of the soil for protection or support has been a mere figment. Her middle classes, con sisting of an unnatural body, holding a position between the owners of the soil and the poor, have intercepted the benefits derivable by each from the just connexion which exists in other countries between the two extremities of the social fabric, draining and impoverishing both, reducing the landowner and the noble to a condition little short of permanent insolvency, and crushing the small farmer and the peasant into one which is scarcely a remove from pauptrism. Religious strife has furnished another ingredient in the bitter potion of ill which Ireland has had to swallow ; and agrarian disturbance, superstition, ignorance, and the indo lence of her people, partly constitutional and partly arising from the absence of all encouragement to continuous industry, have filled up the number of instrumentalities by which her sum of misery has at length become too great for endurance. The object of this gathering of her landowners and leading members of parliament, and the tem porary fusion of all differences, religious and poli tical, which appears to have been satisfactorily accomplished, is to direct the energies of the intel ligence and property of the nation to some effort, in the first place - , to overcome .the dangers of the present crisis, and in the next, to provide for the permanent elevation of the Irish character and of the social condition of the Irish people. The land lord class see before them, as the result of continued neglect of their duties and continued dissension, the confiscation of their property in the soil and the depopulation of the country by famine. The measures of the Imperial Parliament to meet the evils of the present crisis, necessarily hasty and doubtless ill-judged, they see are improvident, wasteful, and inefficient for the achievement of the objects in view; and at length the necessity of an attempt to help themselves is forced upon them. Some men would have seen all this long ago, and acted with promptness upon their convictions. "Better late than never," however, is a wise maxim ; although "A stitch in time" is a more homely and a more wise one. We shall not complain, however, that Ireland's nobility and gentry are late in their efforts, if they are henceforth persevering and in earnest. • The proceedings of the meeting throughout are most creditable, although we could have spared Mr. O'Connell's furious abuse of the London Times and other members of the British press. Men, in formed at the last hour of their duties, ought not to find fault with those who have for years been dinning those duties into their ears. Had the no- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. blemen and gentlemen of Ireland taken the course, MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS IN THE years ago, upon which th e y seem now b en t ; h a d SHEFFIELD AND . MANCHESTER RAILWAY. they set their houses in order, recognized and at- A meeting of Li ver p oo l s h are h o ld ers i n t h e a b ove tempted to repair the destitution of their semi- railway was held, yesterday afternoon, at the Clarendon pauper dependants, looked to the proper cultivation rooms, for the purpose of determining upon the propriety of the soil, originated measures of emigration or of aiding the effort resolved upon by a similar meeting, of colonization, fostered commerce, shipping, fish- held in Manchester last we e k, to procure a change in the eries, and ass i s t e d i n d eve l op i ng th e resources of a constitution e of the present directory. body of influenti a l h o ld ers were n attendance. Mr. A considerable 1 i country naturally as grea t as th ose o f th e mos t fa- Charles Holland was move d t o the chair, and Mr. voured countries of Europe, their present suffering Townley acted as secretary. It was requested by the and their coming sacrifices, would not have been chairman that each gentleman present would furnish the result of the calamity which has befallen the tii . s r. nkle rm th an t i l sr ie lco s l ec t r i e le ta n ry u ,a, e n r d 0 , fatthtepre shares, s est a T i q ) ( 3 ) e f crop upon which Irishmen principally exist. The m prepared to pay whatever small pro rata sum might be bad taste of Mr. O'Connell was, happily, only a required to meet the expenses likely to be incurred. disagreeable episode in the proceedings. The bulk The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, stated of those noblemen and gentlemen who took part in , that the meeting had been called owing to the great dissa the proceedings were actuated by a far better spirit, 1 tisfaction .i amongstexistingo the the SheffieldL r) Liverpool Niiil a n w t ay e . management..Lt shareholders and Manchester and many of them tacitly admitted their past omissions, and appeared actuated by a sincere de- come - was known that a large traffic was ready to upon the line ; but it was prevented doing so by the ' sire to render Ireland what she ought to be—a deficiency of the accommodation provided, although, if credit to the British empire, rather than a disgrace sufficient means were at hand, the railway would be a and a drag upon her prosperity and power. , most profitable concern. The chairman referred to the of the meetin g o f M anc h es t er s h are h o ld ers , We have gi ven e l sew h ere a b r i e f ana l ys i s o f t h e Proceedingsand hadattended, and which he others resolutions passed at the meeting. There is little had learnt there that every information had been offered in them to which we can object, with the exception to be given by them to the board, who would co-operate of the demand that the cost of the unproductive in the carrying nut of any reasonable steps recommended, public works, upon which the destitute people of and that a committee had been appointed who . wou would eport. He then called upon Mr. Alderman Nicol to Ireland have been employed, should be borne by move the first resolution. the nation at large. We cannot recognise the jus- Mr. Nicol., in introducing the resolution, stated that tice of this ; but, i n suc h a cr i s i s as th e present, we he had come to the meeting very imperfectly acquainted must be merciful instead of strictly just. Provi, with the objects which its promoters had in view. He was deuce, aided by our own exertions, has placed the glad to hear thato of the d e ir a e r c e tr o s ld w er e s re fa d v i o s o p re ose to eo rr a l British people in a condition of superior comfort, th e no ic sugges tions yio h h moving the first resolution, which y was to compared with that of their Irish brethren ; and, the effect, that the meeting was of opinion that energy on perhaps, in such an emergency as the present, we the part of the board of directors was all that was required may afford, although suffering severely ourselves, to advance the value of the line. to be generous; and to overlook past shortcomings. Mr. TOWNI:EY addressed a few words to the meeting, What the precise effect upon the course of Go ad of e e nexemnatoeryb the e isr o ali o y g the o pase m nt ee m ti o n v g em t in Man an vernment of this happy combination of parties in chester. He had had much correspondence with the an effort for a national good may be, we are not in secretary, and had been met by him in a most candid a position to judge. It cannot, we believe, be one spirit, as well as by the directors. They had furnished unattended with real and solid advantage. The him with a list of_ partie e s n eMb e le to b t e l aroin t t o edirectors, nobility and gentry of Ireland united in a practical and he believedh t e ane s they would d a w mongst the m m o . s W i it p h y respe a c N t re to so ge e effort for their country's prosperity and improve- traffic, he was convinced that the merchandise could be must be listened to ; and, if the result be a doubled in three or six months. Their deficiency of ac ution of n fi 1 rae...en. mcincnrpa fill. +l,-,.. 4-1,.,-. I -----A-4-z-- ..4. al_ A. , retical projects 1;1 ch have ever formed the staple commodities with which Whig administrations have attempted to ameliorate the condition of the Irish people, and the same amount of sound good sense displayed at this meeting is brought to bear upon the devising of these measures, we entertain no fear of the success of the movement. wa.....u.a.,am a., LU JUMIUII was at present a great hin drance to them. They had, however, bought a warehouse adjacent, which would be open in a fortnight. They had also bought the Ashton canal, with a large quantity of land available for a goods terminus. Since the tunnel was opened such immense quantities of corn, flour, &c., had poured down upon them from Lincolnshire and Notting hamshire, that they had been obliged to give notice of their inability to accommodate it. The speaker con cluded by seconding the resolution. A Sheffield proprietor intimated that most of the pro prietors there were in favour of this movement. A Liverpool proprietor objected to the wording of the resolution, inasmuch as it seemed to reflect on the di rectors ; but on explanation withdrew his objection, and the motion was carried unanimously. THE debate in the Council upon the motion of Mr. Sands for an increase of the salary of Mr. Rushton presents some features which, whilst they must have been gratifying to that gentleman, reflect great credit upon the Conservative portion of that body. The fact, that both the mover and seconder of the proposition were Conservatives, shows that the decision at which the Council arrived was not prompted by party motives. Every speaker throughout the proceedings bore willing testimony to the ability with which the business of the bench is discharged by the stipen- . diary . ; and the only circumstance to be regretted connected with the subject is the fact, that the proposition was ever introduced at all, and that the injudicious partiality of Mr. Rushton's friends should have placed him in a mortifyMg position 'before his fellow-townsmen. , Mr. FORSYTH moved th a t a committee should be ap pointed to co-operate with the Manchester committee, after which • Mr. Taos. TERSEYMAN, who appeared as a deputation from the committee in Manchester, stated what that com mittee were doing, and expressed his great confidence in the worth of the undertaking, which he felt sure would become one of the first lines out of Manchester. The meeting then proceeded to the appointment of a committee, when Mr. Nicol, Mr. Townley, and the chair man were moved as members. Ultimately, (Mr. Nicol not being present,) Mr. Townley, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Chapman and the chairman agreed to form such commit tee ; and it was arranged that the services of Mr. Nicol and Mr. Jack, a large shargOolder, should be requested. Thanks were voted by acclamation to the chairman, and the meeting broke up. EXCESSIVE PRICE OF POTATOES. The result, however, we trust, will ultimately be for the advantage of the public and of Mr. Rushton himself. It is now a fact ad m itt e d on all hands, _ orked, and that his powers are The Council has placed its veto upon the principle attempted to be established, that the work of two men is to be thrown upon the shoulders of one in order that that one may be doubly paid. We ask that body now, and we ask, especially, of Mr. Rushton's friends and of the borough magistrates, to be consistent. Since they cannot carry their point in the shape of a pecuniary recompense, they must resort to the alternative of lessening the pressure of his duties. We do not abate one iota of our demand for an additional police court, and a division of the borough into separate magisterial districts. We are, on the contrary, strengthened in the views which we have all along expressed with respect to the necessity of such a measure. The convenience of the public requires that it should be adopted ; and the most active advocates of the claim put forward in behalf of Mr. Rushton's increase admit, that at no distant period it must be adopted. In the meantime, however, a middle course is open. The borough magistrates of Liverpool are now, we think, bound to do their duty, and to relieve the stipendiary of some of his work. There can be no' difficulty, as suggested by Mr. Alderman Hodgson, in removing from him the disorderly cases, dock informations, and other merely routine cases, if the gentlemen who are in possession of the honour of seats upon the bench will devote an occasional hour of their time to the public service. They are bound to do this by their profession of sympathy for their over-worked brother magistrate. unfairly tasked We have been shown a sample of potatoes, of excellent quality, of which we are told a large supply may be had, at a price very much below what we .are now paying in this town for a far worse article. The potatoes in ques tion have been received by an hotel keeper, from Mirfield, in Yorkshire, at 9s. per load, of 240 lbs. ; and the cost of conveyance per railway to Liverpool, will add to this about 2s. per load, making them his. delivered here, whilst we are paying 7s. to 7s. 6d. per 90 lbs. for pink eyes, or upwards of double the price. Our inform ant, upon whom we can rely, assures us that a trades man of his acquaintance in Wakefield, has contracted to supply in April 1000 loads at 7s. per load ; and this he has done from the confident expectation which he enter tains that by that time he will be able to buy them to deliver at that price ; the farmers throughout Yorkshire, and in other districts, having great quantities stored up, which must be brought forward before the new crop comes into the market. This ought to be a seasonable hint to the farmers in our district, who are holding back in expectation of still higher prices, not to lose their present opportunity of realizing, and to consumers gene rally to send their orders into the interior of the country, if they find themselves unable to buy at home on reason able terms. The consumers in Manchester are already doing so ; and, as the result, potatoes there are selling at 2s. per load lower than the price here. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, Associations, under this title, have within the last two years been formed in the metropolis for inculcating amongst assistant shopmen, and other young men, a knowledge and practice of religion ; and a similar asso ciation, having the same ends in v i ew , h as j us t b e en formed in Liverpool, and held its first meeting on Friday evening, in the large room of the Charitable Institution House, in Slater-street, which was crow d e d o n the occa sion. The Rev. W. Falloon, Incumbent of St. John's Church, delivered, on this occasion, an impressive lecture, enforcing the precepts of the Gospel on his audience, warning the young men present of the danger of indulging in sinful habits and propensities, too common amongst them, and urging them to accept the aids to virtue and religion, and the protection from the temptations by which they are surrounded, which were offered them by this so ciety. The rev. gentleman was listened to throughout with great and, at times, almost breathless attention, for about an hour and a half ; an d a ft er th e th an k s of the meeting to the rev. gentleman had been expressed by ac clamation, the proceedings terminated, as they had com menced, with prayer.. To-morrow week a screw steamer will commence plying with goods only, between this port and Glasgow. On Sunday last, the sum of .f.. 56 13s. was collected in St. Silas' Church, for the relief of the Irish and Scotch poor. Unfortunately no notice was given the Sunday previous of the intended collection. - On Sunday last, at St. George's Church, Everton, after a sermon by the Rev. W. Withers Ewbank, the sum of £217 was collected for the relief of those, who are suffer ing from famine in Scotland and Ireland. THE WEATHER.—We had at short intervals last week severe frost, which again set in on Saturday night very sharply, and has continued ever since. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST'S CHURCH, TOXTETH-PARR. —On Sunday last, after a sermon by the Rev. James Hassan, the sum of £47 Bs. Bd., was collected for the re lief of the poor of this church and district. ST. CLEkENT'S CHURCH, WINDSOR.—The congrega tion of St. Clements have responded to an appeal of their respected minister, the Rev. F. Parry, in behalf of the sufferers in Ireland and Scotland, by the very liberal contribution of £lO4 18s. 6d. On Sunday night, the body of a man unknown was picked up in the river near George's Pier. He was seen struggling in the water, and was hooked out by a captain of a flat, but too late to save his life. He had on a pair of light corduroy trowsers, dark waistcoat, and was of light complexion. On Sunday morning last, after a powerful and very stirring appeal from the Rev. D. Stewart, the sum of £172 Bs. 9d. was collected in St. Bride's church, for the relief of the destitute Beath and Irtsh. £2O of the amount was given for Scotland, £lO for Ireland, and the remainder was divided equally between the two countries. We are glad to learn that, at Aigburth, the congregation of St. Anne's has, within the last few days, entered into subscriptions in aid of the destitute Irish. The amount already exceeds £3OO. The fund is managed by a com mittee of gentlemen, in conjunction with the Rev. Wm. Purdon, the incumbent, and Wm. J. Tomlins on an d Edward Moon Esqrs., Churchwardens. Contributions, we understand, are received from all parties, wherever they may reside. Is BLASPHEMY WIT ?—The author of .` Irish Dia monds," who is also one of the editors of the Mercury, favours his readers in the former publication with a new theory on the subject of wit and humour. Perhaps he will be obliging enough to inform us in what consists the wit (for we presume it is intended to be witty) of the blasphemous parody which appeared in his columns On Friday last. A journal which arrogates to itself the cha racter of our leading local organ, might certainly refrain from offending propriety by reprinting a production only fit to be read in a conclave of infidels. GREAT LIBERALITY. —On Thursday evening last a meeting, of the friends and supporters of the St. Barnabas Schools, was held in the school-room, Greenland-street, for the purpose of hearing the Report read, and passing the accounts for the past year. From the Report it ap peared that the schools are in a prosperous condition, and every thing in the financial department being satisfactory, the accounts were passed unanimously. After the abdve business was transacted, the Rev. T. Nolan took the op portunity of reading extracts from various letters which he had received, giving most appalling accounts of the distress at present existing in Ireland, with the view of raising a subscription, for the relief so much needed. A liberal sum was collected in the room, and on Sunday morning last, the Rev. Gentleman brought the subject more generally before his congregation, and we are glad to announce the amount sent in, up to last night, reached £l6O. SOUTHERN AND •TOXTETH HOSPITAL The Fifth Annual Meeting of this valuable Charity was held yesterday in the Board-room of the Institution, Par liament-street, the respected President, Joseph B. Yates, Esq., in the chair, The following tabular statement, read by him, exhibits the operations of the Institution during the past year. In ' Out Total Cured...... Relieved l2 0 12 Left Hos. at own request 12 0 12 Irregular l3 0 13 Dead 34 11 45 Under treatment. 57 28 85 573 1436 2009 . Operations— 7 13 20 Accidents ........... 363 1089 1452 Of the 34 dead, fourteen died within 24 hours after ad mission, the other twenty surviving for various longer periods • Dead, when brought to the hospital . Patients in the hospital during 1845 62 Admitted from Ist Jan., 1846, to do. 1847 573 Of these were discharged, cured or relieved 482 Dead . 34 Remaining in the hospital Jan. 1, 1847..... 57 The CHAIRMAN said that the committee had to regret, much that several minor cases were excluded from the benefit of the institution in consequence of the inadequate accommodation, and the board would require £2OOO more before they would be able to render the establishment efficient. They had now accommodation for 60 in-door patients, but when they had completed the intended enlargement, there would be twice the number of beds. He said that unless the call was better responded to in the present than during the past year, some delay would unavoidably take place ; and without the sum he had named it would be morally impossible to meet the wants of the poor. The report, which was ordered to be printed, stated that the cases of extreme distress were more numerous last year than ever, and many accidents, and a large number of medical cases, had been excluded, for want of accommodation. The committee appealed to shipowners and gentlemen engaged in the timber and foreign trades for more sympathy on behalf of the institution, as the committee consider that the efficient maintenance of the hospital can be proved in various ways to be essential to the well-being of Liverpool. The enlargement of the building must ere long be proceeded with, if it be intended to keep pace in any degree with the requirements occa sioned by the extension of the docks. The committee express their grateful thanks to the clergy, and especially to the Rev. Mr. Nolan, their worthy chaplain, for their effective appeals to their congregations. It was moved by the Rev. Mr. HESKETH, and seconded by Mr. EDWARD CROPPER, " That the thanks of the meeting be given to Jos. B. Yates, for his valuable ser vices as President during the past year, and that he be requested to continue that office." Several gentlemen present spoke most warmly as to his ability end zeal fur the good of the charity, A vote of thanks was voted to the Vice-President, Mr- Platt, the Treasurer, and the members of the com mittee. The President, Treasurer, and several gentlemen, after the motion of thanks to the Rev. T. Nolan, Honorary Chaplain, expressed the deep obligations of the committee to the unremitting and pains-taking attention of the reverend gentleman, who, it was stated, besides adminis tering daily to the respective spiritual necessities of the inmates, has a special service, every Sunday afternoon, for their general comfort and edification. LAIINCH.—A splendid new ship, of 650 tons register, will be launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Clarke and Co., Queen's Dock, this day at noon. She is to be called the " Marian," has been built expressly for Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand, and is intended for the East India trade. BOARD OF EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.— At a Board held on Tuesday, the 12th inst., Capt. Edward G. Lott, of the Caledonia, one of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's vessels, was examined, and found duly qualified for a first-class extra certificate as master, which was accordingly granted to him. DEATH FROM BURNING.—On Wednesday morning last, while Ellen Jones, aged 22, servant to Mr. Robert Mitchell, of South Castle-street, was taking a kettle off the fire, her apron became ignited, and set her in a blaze. Mr. Mitchell, to whom she ran up stairs, did his utmost to extinguish the flames by using the carpet, and suc ceeded, but she died from the injuries on Saturday. DEATH FROM PENURY.—An inquest was held yest,er-. day, on view of the body of Mary Kenney, aged 55. Deceased was the wife of James Kenney, joiner, Toxteth park, but they had not lived together for twelve months, he allowing her eight shillings to twelve shillings a -week to live upon. Deceased was very penurious, and was also addicted to drinking. She resided alone in Great Homer street, and was there found by some neighbours dead in bed, on Saturday last. On an examination of the body, it appeared there was no food on the stomach and that death was caused by want f sustenance. , -~ ~... NATIONAL EDUCATION. SIR,—As the subject of education is likely to occupy the attention of her Majesty's Ministers for the ensuing session of Parliament, I deem the present a fitting oppor tunity to submit to your consideration a mode of providing for the national education, and for securing, at the same time, religious instruction, without wounding the feelings or prejudices of Churchmen or Dissenters. I propose that every religious denomination shall have schools of their own, and maintained at the national expense ; and in order that I, as a Churchman, may not have my money applied to extend and disseminate religious opinions at variance with my own, or the Dissenters in like manner to 'disseminate religious notions adverse to theirs, I propose that a tax be levied upon all parties assessed to the poor, and that the money paid by the different denominations of Christians be applied to their special use. I would make it compulsory on all to pay ; and the collection of this tax would be easy and simple— it would incur no additional expense by new machinery to bring it into operation ; and the scheme solves the diffi culty of giving education and religious instruction at the same time, which can never be accomplished where all denominations are taught together. Where all denominations of Christians meet together it can only be on the neutral ground of secular education, and a purely secular education I hold to be a great national evil. The mode of levying the education tax would be as fol lows, by an additional line or column on the poor-rate paper, and each person to declare his religion : "nuke Assessment. pound. Amount. £ -d. .t , sd: John Goodman, Church of England , 100.... 21., ...1 oto John Goodfellow, Baptist 5O. ?, .010 5 This could be accounted for, to a commission in every town or district of sufficient importance, and applied ac cordingly to each denomination. ' The details are so obvious and simple that I forbear to dwell on them. One great good to result from this plan would be, that party strife about schools will cease ; all will be provided for, and the rising generation taught religion. All classes rated to the poor will have to contribute according to the station they occupy in society, Gentlemen who talk so loudly in favour of enlightenment and education, but who contribute nothing, will be silenced, and the few who now have to give so largely, wouldbe able to direct their bene volence into other channels. The tax on the community would be trifling, the ad vantages and gain to the nation incalculable ; by training up children in the way in which they should go—by mak ine them rood hnshanda_ fahpr. and bers of society, instead of a curse to themselves and every body else. With regard to the tax.—A rate of 21d. in the pound would more than maintain all the schools now open in Liverpool. In the corporation schools, the numbers on the books are 1709, but the number in actual attendance is 1221, and the cost of maintenance amounts to £1244, or about £1 per head. According to the evidence of Dr. Collins, (corporation inquiry, p. 462), the number of children attending the Roman Catholic schools in Liverpool, was 1478, and the cost of the whole amounted to £798, or rather less than Ils. per head. At this inquiry it was shown the number of children deriving instruction from all the public schools was 9484 ; if we estimate them, therefore, now to amount to 12,000, and the cost to be 13s. per head, we should require a gross sum of £7BOO for their maintenance, with. good and efficient masters. The number of assessments in Liverpool being 65,471, and the rateable value £1,368,652, would produce, at 2d}. in the pound, £14,255, but the actual amount realizable, according to last year, at this rate, would be £9540; this gives such an excess as to leave ample margin to increase the schools beyond my estimate. Such a scheme would throw the burden equally, and the tax fall so lightly, that none but " born grumblers " would complain ; it would secure the rights of all classes, insure religion being taught, and not be a " Godless " system of education. These are important points to com bine, and which can never be accomplished when all sects and denominations meet together ; it is a fallacy to sup pose that the duty of man is or can be successfully incul cated where only secular education is afforded, and to look for blessings being showered on the nation, where our rules exclude religion from the national schools, would, indeed, be to gather grapes from thistles. Before I conclude permit me to give you a p rac ti ca l illustration of the fruits of secular and religious education. I might quote several of the Judges, the most learned men, clerical and lay, to prove the danger of giving secular instruction only to the rising generation, but I will confine myself within smaller limits, an d first shew the state of crime, at two distinct periods, in this county, say 1836 and 1843, which are the latest in my possession Committed Neither Im for trial in read nor per- Lancashire. write. feetly 1843.. 3677 1423 1952 1836 .. 2265 980 1111 Superior Educa- Not Well. tion. knowr 205 10 77 122 10 3 1ncr.1412 93 451) , cent. 5'6 ct. 76v- cent. From these returns you will - perceive, that whilst the increase of crime in those who can neither read nor write amounted to 45 per cent., it is swelled to 76 per cent. among those who can read and write " imperfectly" and " well ;" or, in other words, crime has increased at a ra tio of 31 per cent. with those who have received the spu rious education of the times, over and above those who have received no instruction whatever. I have compared other years, and find the balance in every case I have examined, to be against those who can read imperfectly" and " well." I cannot resist quoting the following from one of Mr. Justice Coleridge 's charges : it is brief, and is much to the " There appears to be a very great increase among the prisoners of persons who are able to read and write ; but this shows that such an education is not sufficient, and that it was of no avail unless the persons who received it were taught to employ it properly, and that it would be of very little use to improve the physical education of the people, or to give them education, unless the education was founded upon morality and religion," I will conclude by giving one more illustration of the effects of secular and religious instruction, and refer to the evidence of Mr. Cook and Mr. Huish, given before the Poor-law Commissioners as regards the begs in the work houses of St. Clement Danes and St. George's, South wark. It would be too long to quote the evidence, and sufficient to state the fact, that in St. Clement's, where there was no religious instruction, nearly all the boys turned out bad, whilst on the other hand, the boys from St. George's, who received religious instruction, turned out generally well ' • and of those apprenticed to different tradesmen, about 80 per cent. of them obtained pre miums and rewards. I think I have sufficiently shown the advantages of a sound religious education over one merely secular; and, as the former is more e a sily to be obtained, by m y plan of a general tax, and without trenching in any way on the rights and liberties of the most scrupulous in religious matters, I venture to commend it to your consideration. I have the honor to be, Sir, • Your very obedient Servant, (Signed,) J. BRAMLEY MOORE. To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart, M.P., &c., &c., &c., Secretary of State, London. MR. COBDEN'S PRIVATE REASONS FOR NOT COMING FORWARD AS A CANDIDATE FOR MANCHESTER. Our readers will probably remember a passage of co quetry which took place when the announcement was made public that Mr. Mark Philips did not intend to pre sent himself again as a candidate for Manchester„between the Reformers of that town and Mr. Cobden. The latter had " private reasons," he said, for declining the honour offered him of being brought forward to fill the vacant seat. Our contemporary, the Manchester Courier, gives the following hints for a guide to the real state of affairs : hparovevoca " What were the re asons o f a pr i vate nature that prevented Mr. Cobden from condescending to be p u t i n nomination ? We have promis e d t o k eep our h an d s o ff M r . Bright's private affairs and transactions. W e oweweillthe man n keepthatolll will, although he essayed a pro mise literally, because, privately, w pun y effort to o to injureth eretaliate conclusionus i n then, our property. There was fair After much reflection, we gt a that we have too long refrainedfrs to arrivedtioam a private tra nsac ti on , asking provocation nons (the M cause Bsrieh from question, which swahiscehrireeslaotfepsrte t relates, iivnadeed, transactions long hesitation), but which, on reflection, appears to us to assume rather a public than a private complexion, since it relates to the reason why Mr. Cobden has hitherto refused to stand in the way of Mr. Bright's known designs upon the constitue nc y. W e shall put the question with sufficient plainness, if we ask Mr. Bright (as we now ask him, and expect an answer too), whether Mr. Cobden is not, or has not been unde r PECULIAR obligations to him ? We can assure Mr. Bright we have heard all about this business, and that evasion or subterfuge will not serve Mm." A "forcible appeal was made oriii , Sunday morning last, at St. Michael's Church, Toxteth-park, by the Rev. Wm. Hesketh, the incutt►bent, on behalf of the unhappy suf ferers from destitution both in Liverpool and in Ireland, and the very handsome sum of £B2 14s. was collected ; which collection will be divided equally between the funds for Ireland and those of the District Provident Society. The preacher stated that the chief motive for suggesting this division had arisen from the circumstance that the town of Liverpool had become the city of refuge to the starving Irish, and that of 1,080 persons who had received relief from the district Provident Society within the last few days, 765 were Irish. PRAISEWORTHY GENEROSITY OF WORKING MEN. — The Liverpool Mercury, which seldom omits an opportu nity of throwing out dirty insinuatio n s against parties to whom he is politically opposed, referring l as t week to a collection for c h ar i ta b le purposes made by the men in the employ of Messrs S. and J. Hohne, stated that such collection had been made under the coercion of their employers for a Church of England Society. Of course, those wh o k now the character of these gentlemen will be prepared to find the Mercury's assertion a spiteful inven tion. The , collection, which amounts to £22 55., was made voluntarily by the men, unknown to the Messrs. Holme ; and it has not b e e n foengr the ive uri nstoirtehencghs of their poorer church society, or any society as yet. We believe, as it emanated from the m sympathy felt by th e re: fellow-countrymen, that it will be given, one half to the District Provident, and the other to the Liverpool Chari table Society. The effort does honour to a body of men who, themselves in the employment of good masters, although in this severe weather many of them must be temporarily out of work, can recognise th e c l a i m of others who are less fortuagtely situated. Jan. 19, 1847. BURN'S COMMERCIAL GLANCE At a late hour last night we received this document, which, at the present crisis of the cotton trade, is of unu• sual importance. We therefore hasten to give a few of the most important statistics which it contains, and which we regret to find are not calculated to impress us with I very favourable opinion of the operation of our commerce during the past year, or of our prospects for the year to come. The article which ranks No. 1 in Mr. Burn's tables that of cotton yarn, one in the manufactute of which the, least amount of industry is employed. Ygt this is one of the only articles of importance in which we finis an in crease of exports during the past year. In 1845 we ex ported of cotton yarn 131,937,9351b5. ; and in the past year, 15 7,130,0251b5—an increase of 25 millions of pounds, or nearly 20 per cent. over the exports of 1845. The in crease of that year over the preceding was short of two million pounds. The increase this year is principally to' Belgium, the Hanse Towns, Holland, India, and Chinari (from 16,518,987 lbs in 1845, to 24,502,908 lbs.) Napleg and Sicily, Sweden and Norway, Sardinia, Tuscany, &c.ri Trieste and Austrian ports, Turkey and the Levant. To Russia there is a considerable and continuous falling off. Our next article of importance is that of plain calicoeg —a staple of our manufactures —which exhibits a veil slight advance, the exports being, in 1846, 618,839,181 yards, against 613,138,645 yards. The slight amount of this increase may be judged of by the fact that the exportg of this fabric in 1842 were only 366,040,519 yards ; that it rose 150 million yards in 1843, and nearly 50 millions more yards in 1844. In printed cottons—a more advanced manufacture—we have a falling off, the exports being, in 1846, 267,084,79/ yards, against 310,850,697 yards in 1845, being a falling off of 15 per cent. The year 1845 exhibited a very slight falling off as compared with 1844. There is a falling off in the exports of cotton thread, damasks and diapers, cambrics and muslins, counterpanes, quilts, cotton and linen mixed, ginghams (nearly 50 per cent), hosiery, shawls and handkerchiefs, tapes and une numerated goods ' • and a slight inc rease on l y i n t h e unim portant articles of dimities, lawns and lenos, cords and fustians, nankeens, lace, and ticks. , The total weight of yarn in manufactured goods, yarn and thread, exported in 1846, was 354,291,749 lbs., against 336,866,327 lbs. in 1845, the increase being more than accounted for by the additional exports of yarn. The value of the cotton goods exported in 1846 was £23,475,941, against £22,063,898 in 1845. The con sumption per week in 1846, Mr. Burn estimates at 31,795 bales, against 30,933 in 1845. The quantity of yarn spurt in 1846 he makes 495,033,109 lb s., against 494,766,4871b5. in 1845. Deducting from these respective amounts the yarn exported, we have manufactured into goods in 1846, 337,903,084 lbs. of yarn, against 362,828,552 lbs. in 1845, being a falling off of 25,000,000 lbs. of yarn, the ma nufacture of which into goods has been lost to our working population. Deducting the total weight ex ported in yarn and goods from the total yarn spun, we have 140,741,360 lbs. manufactured and consumed in 1846 by the home trade, against 157,900,160 consumed by us last year—a falling off in our home consumption of 17,000,000 lbs of yarn. OFFICIAL INQUIRY AT BIRKENHEAD, Yesterday, Henry Robert Goldfinch, Esq., barrister-at. law ' and Geo rge Rennie, Esq., civil engineer, pr e sid e d a t the Town-hall, Birkenhead , f or the purpose of examining witnesses and reporting to both Houses of Parliament re lative to an intended application to Parliament for an act relating to the Birkenhead Improvement Water W or ks. The inquiry was held pursuant to the provisions of an act of Parliament passed in the last session, intituled " An Act for making preliminary inquiries in certain cases of application for local bills. Mr. John Buck Lloyd, Solicitor,. appeared on behalf of the promoters of the bill; who are the commissioners of the township, and Mr. William Laird, Mr. John Laird, and several others of the commissioners were on the same side. Mr. William Jackson, Mr. Mortimer, Mr. Hicklin, and Mr. Highfield appeared as ratepayers and opponents, and cross-examined the several witnesses at considerable length. The proceedings were opened by Mr. J. B. Lloyd reading the Commission from the Woods and FOrestsi under which Messrs. Goldfinch and Rennie were em powered to act in the capacity of surveying -officers. Mr. GOLDFINCH read the instructions himself, and hie colleague had been furnished with them. These instruc tions were to the effect that they should survey the dis trict, examine witnesses, and report to both Houses of Parliament, prior to the 4th of March. The object of the inquiry was to institute inquiries, and obtain more trustworthy informations, preliminary to any investigation before committees of the house. It was believed that this course of proceeding would save expense, and that in the result the interest of all parties would be, fully. and fairly represented. Then they were instructed to conduct the inquiry in the Town-hall, or some other public place of meeting, to allow the promoters of the measure to open the case, then to hear the objecto rs , it any, and finally to allow the promoters the privilege of making a reply. It was considered necessary, in all cases, to dispense with counsel ; and evidence was to be taken by a short-hand writer. Mr. LLOYD opened the case at great length. He divided the heads of the proposed bill under six heads. The first was to establish water-works ; the second was to obtain powers to purchase, by compulsion or agree ment, the existing water-works belonging to the Birken head and Claughton Gas and Water Company; the third was to obtain water for what might be termed sanatory purposes, such as watering the streets, supplying wash houses and baths, markets, and troughs for watering cattle, and for extinguishing fires, and to levy a public rate for these purposes, to be called a water rat/{ the fourth was to supply the inhabitants, not not by cc , - pul sion, but according to a scale of rents, for domestic purposes ; the fifth was, to supply parties for manufac turing and trading purposes by agreement ; and the sixth was, to supply shipping coming to the port of Birken head by agreement also. He gave full credit to the existing Company, for having established thei r water works at a time of some risk ; but he said the time had arrived when, in the opinion of the inhabitants of many towns, these extensive undertakings must be in the hands of the governing bodies ; and he concluded by- observinef that one great object o f th e proposed bill would be, that' the profits, if any, would go in liquidation of the local rates. - Mr. Brunel and Mr. Salter, surveyors and officers of the township, put in a variety of plans and sections, show ing the geological structure of the locality, and the strata or beds from whence the supply of water is obtained , They stated that there -were 18,145 inhabitants in the township, and 4,039 houses. 2,099 of these houses were inhabited ; 839 were unoccupied; and 447 were in course of erection and completion. They had classified the rental, and found that there were not any houses under £3 per annum. There were four houses above £3 and under £5 per annum ; above £5 and under £lO there were 246 houses ; above £lO and under £l5l 1026 ; above £l5, and under £2O, 544 ; above £2O, and under £3O, 692 ; above £3O, and under £4O, 425 ; above £4o,' and under £5O, 228 ; above £5O, and under £6O, 162; above £6O, and under £7O, 92; above £7O, and under £BO, 35 ; above £BO, and under £9O, 45 ; above £9O, and under £lOO, 23 ; above £lOO, and under £ll O l 42 ; above £llO, and under £l2O, 5 ; above £l2O, and under £l3O, 9 ; above £l3O, and under £l4O, 5 ; above £l4O, and under £l5O, 4 ; above £l5O, and under £l6O, 1; above £l6O, and 'under £2OO, 5 ; above £2OO, a nd under £3OO, 2 ; above £350, 1. He stated th a t bottle the water of. the existing Company' s had beebeen ana lysed by Dr. Play fair fair and that it had b een fou nd et exce ll e nt quality, softer than that at Notti ng h am a nd r. AWKESLEY was examined. Manchester, and well adapted for manufacturing purposes, and domestic uses : there was an abundant supply in the neighbourhood for 60 or 80,000 inhabitants, and there was a further abundant supply obtainable at H o brwell , He was for giving twenty gallons per diem to each of the inhabitants of the township, and a constant supply. He d lc o u m la e t s i t o i n c, s m a a s n t u e fac th turi e q n u g a , n a ti n t u y i ° lor a' t e h n a te t r w ed oul in d t b o e a r v e ar qu ie ire ty d shipping purposes,, estimating that quantity at somewhere about 1,600,000 gallons daily. Witnesses were examined to show that the su the present Co m p an y was Periodical, a n d th a t on ue,s; days and Fridays it illy o f was turned off ; b ut Mr. Highfiew endeavoured to make it appear, that it must be occasion' ally, and for short intervals, turned off from one district , in order to supply other districts with additional quail' titles. The inquiry lasted from ten until four o'clock, and W then adjourned until ten this morning. It will, in all pre: bability, not be te rm i nate d t o -d a y s h ou ld t h e opponen t of the bill go into a rebutting case. Lord Hatherton will move the address in the House o f Lords. The. Queen will hold a Privy Council this afternoon s $ Buckingham Palace. The Lord May or o f London is now distrib u ti ng £5 0° to the poor of the me tropolis, left in his h an d s by Ibrabil Pacha. 10 1 visit to the electors of Sheffield on W e d nes d ay. t THE TEN Homes' BILL. — Mr. Ward paid his annul )/ course of his speech he made a positive announcement re' , specting the Ten Hours' Bill:—" I shall go to the Hoof of Commons this year to see the Ten H ours ' Bill carrie°:, I say th i„,, a higher authority . than my own, and belie; that Lord John Russell will give s ome mo difi ca ti on o f Ten Hours Bill his support." AN INTREPID MISSIONARY.—The Gazette du' Plig li announ ces the arrival at Mars e ill es o f M. l'Abbe Gabet, g . Lazarist missionary, on his return from Mongolia. Irgi i n trepid ecclesiastic accom pli s h e d a j ourney of 4,urA, leagues from Chinese Tartary, on th e confines of Sibermf and arrived with his feet frozen in traversing those iT; mense deserts, where the road is marked solely by 0 0 bones of men and camels. I n the same passage, and ° the same day 40 men we re frozen and abandoned. STEAM TO SPAIN. —The new Spa n i s h steamer Gibralfal (late the Fire King,) w ill , i n a few days , call at this port, 1 1 l thence proceed, vi a S outhampton, to several of the princi j ports in Spain, calling also at Havre. This is another result)) steam navigatio n o f the enterprise of our countrymen, wi11 .,. ' cannot fail to be acceptable to shippers of goods and passeng WRY Is O'CONNELL LIKE A TAILOR.? 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