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favour the public with the respectable names of these respectable requisitionists ? The usual practice is to pub- Lair the names of these parties in the first instance, and before or at the time when the meeting is convened- This wholesome practice has been dispensed with on the present occasion ; but is it because the requisionists are too poor to pay for the advertisement, or are they ashamed to appear in the paucity of their moral and numerical in fluence before the public ? We will be bound they con sist of a few Irish papists who have little or no connexion with the town, urged on by the 11Iaynooth priests, and backed by a knot of unitarians. It shall be our duty• therefore, to ferret them out before Friday, on the morning of which day we shall probably pay our respect s to them. THE NEW COURT OF REQUEST BILL. According to the promise contained in our last we proceed with our remarks on the most objectionable clauses in this bill: By a rider to the bill a clumsy attempt is made to prevent de fendant's being put to unnecessary expense of proceedings, in order to delay immediate judgment, in actions in which they have no available defence but are desirous of gaining time. The intention is certainly commendable, but the clause, in its present form, is not calculated to effect the object proposed without par tially sacrificing the interest of the plaintiff. The clause pro poses, that when a defendant is served with process or arrested, before declaration filed he may apply to the court for a stay of proceedings on his entering into a rule of court to confess the 'debt endorsed on the writ, and his undertaking tha t j .-- cdgment. shall pass against him on such confession for such debt and -costs, on non-payment of the same, by him, in one month, or -any longer or shorter periods, by instalments or otherwise, as the !court may direct. And bylthe following clause power is given to confess, in like manner, any part of the debt endorsed on *itch writ, if on the hearing of the application such shall appear 1O be all that is thirici fide elftinteT by the plaintiff, and in such. case the court may make the order and give time as aforesaid, and award costs or not in their discretion, but should the plain tiff claim a further sum than the defendant is willing to confess the defendant shall be allowed time to pay the amount confessed and the plaintiff may proceed to trial for the recovery of the re mainder of his claim. The great oversight in the first part of this clause (admitting tho right of the court Inform a plaintiff to accept payment of his debt by instalment) is the want of a definite period bein g fixed, beyond which no further time for payment shall be granted, as the plaintiff in a just demand is always entitled to a judgment within a certain time—that time being at the trial of the issue. To render this clause beneficial, a proviso must be intro duced curtailing the time tube granted to the defendant on such confession beyond any longer period than that at which by coin process mun of law the plaintiff would be entitled to recover his demand. By allowing the clause to remain in its present form the interest of the plaintiff will be open to be sacrificed to the dishonesty or wilyness of the defendant, for as the court has a discretionary power as to the time to be granted, it may either prolong or shorten the period of payment at its pleasure. But we contend the power of allowing the court to force P creditor to accept payment of his demand by instalments is without prece dent, and, we conceive, not only impolitic but unjust. A creditor before having recourse to legal proceedings is always supposed to have given reasonable time to his debtor to_ pay his demand. Ile comes to the court not to inquire what further time he shall give, but for power to enforce an immediate settlement. Any arrangement as to time is entirely a matter of concession of the plaintiff's, and it appears preposterous to take that power out of the hands of the party aggrieved to plane it in those of the court The creditor is much more likely to be aware of the capability of the party he sues to satisfy his demand than the court. If the measures be adopt for the recovery of his demand fail, the less is consequent upon his own acts. But under this bill it will be far otherwise. The granting time to pay by instalments wil enable debtors to transfer their property more easily by secret atsignment, and also, where they meditate an escape from :.heir 'creditors, materially assist them to carry the same into effect. It does appear to us that this clause, in its working, (if in its present form it pass into law,) will be the cause of great loss and injustice to suitors. If the court is desirous of monopolizing the power of granting time for the payment of debts by instal ments, it ought not to be purchased at the plaintiff's expense ; such being a perfect matter of favour ought 'Lc) be granted only where the ultimate payment is guaranteed by a third party, or by the court itself, securities which this bill does not propose to confer. The latter cruise of the two noticed allowing a defendant to confess a prol of a demand is an experiment to substitute a new remedy for a contingency long since, and by more effective means than the present, provided for. We consider this clause so complete a tissue of blunders and inaccuracies that we decline to offer any comments upon it. We shall conclude the review of this bill in our next. LONDON LATI , ...ST NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, Hall pail Seven o'clock. Several joint stock banking companies are about to be brought forward for the principal commercial towns of England as well as for Ireland. The Colonial (Vest India) Bank is to have a charter, but difficulties have been thrown in the way of granting the same privilege t o th e N ort h A mer i can Colonial B. The Congo' Market continues very heavy; for the Account they have only varied from 914 to during this day. Exche quer Bills were rather heavy at from 18s. to 20s. pierniuni; In -dia Bonds 4s. premium. Speculation was rather inactive in the Foreign Stock Market to-day. Spanish Bonds have rallied slightly, closing at 47i 1. Portuguese 5 per Cents. opened at about b 2, and closed nearly per cent. higher. The 3 per Cents. rose from 511 to 53 for the Account, but left off rather lower. Austrian Metalliques were sold at 6 per cent, above par to-day, and Russian Bonds have improved to MI. The other foreign bonds remain about the same as yesterday. There has nut been much doing in Railway Shares to-day. The Dublin and Kilkenny are at to premium. The Great Western at '26. Brighton (Stephenson's) have fallen to 14, and the shares of Rennie's line to premium. The Green wich Shares have risen from 7,1 to and the North Midland from 8 to 9i premium. The Colonial Bank Shares are not quite so firm, closing at 91 premium. The National Bank of Ireland Shares have been sold at 5 premium to-day. The Shares of the Company established to extend the use of Ryan's iatent for the prevention of dry ro t i n ti m b er were i ssued to-day. n addition to the patronage of his Majesty's g,overument, the London and. Birmingham, and other railway companies, have commenced the use of timber treated under the patent, for pub lic works. TRINITY HARBOUR BILL. House or COMMONS, APRIL 29.—This bill to day passed the committee. The counsel fur the Duke of Bucelench being in formed that the bill which his grace's attorney had seen was not the same which had been amended before the bill went into committee, withdrew his objections, on a few words being in serted, stating that it was not intended that the promoters of the bill should be empowered to alter the road between New haven and Granton. The other opponents of this measure hav ing founded an objection on the width of the entrance to the harbour as laid down on tile plan to meet the objection. This was strenuously opposed by Sir John Hay and the other mem bers opposed to the bill, Sir Edward Codrington supported the alteration on the plan, whereby the larger vessels in his majesty's service will be enabled to take advantage of this great national work without expense to the country. The op position was then withdrawn, and the remainder of the clauses were agreed to, and the bill will now be reported to the house. The following is a list of the division of the committee on the preamble of the bill : For—Mr. Hallvburton, Sir Edward Codrington, Mr. M'Leod, Mr. Tnlk, Mr. Iforthwiek, Mr. Martin, Mr. Bannerman, Mr. Seholefield, Mr. R. Ferguson, Mr. Leader, Colonel Bruen, Mr. A. Johnston, Sir it. S. Donkin, Mr. Tennant, and Mr. Oli phant. Against—Sir John Has-, Sir Hugh Campbell, Mr. Pringle, Sir George Clerk, Mr. Bi.adshaw, and Mr. Bonham. CHESTER RACES.—r• utst DAY. The first day's running came off on the Roodeye. at Chester, yesterday. The day was exceedingly flue, but rather cold for the tune of year. A more numerous and respoetable attendance has seldom been witnessed at any of the previous Cheater meet ings than was gathered together yesterday. The following is the result of the running : A Produce Sweepstakes of 50 says each, h ft., cults Sat 41b fillies, Bst. Two miles. Sir T. Stanley's ch cby Teniers (Ternpleman) 1 Marquis of Westminste r' s b f Sar c a s m, by Teni ers (Wright) 2 Mr. R. Turner's b f by Otympas. Sir It. W. Bolkeley's ch f Acanthus. Mr. T. Legh's br c Blackburn, and Mr. Price's br f by Emilia* also started, but were nut placed.—Seven paid. os t excellent race , an d won by half-ahead. Betting : J to 2 agst Sir Thomas Stanley's ch c by Teniers. Match for 100 soy,. each, h ft. Once round and a distance. Mr. F. R. Price's ch c Stafford, by Nlernuon .. (M. Jones) I Mr. T. W. Giffard's b f Eliza, by Filhn .. (W. Lear) 2 Good race to the Castle Pole, after which no sport. The Tradesmen's Plate of 200 sovs in specie, added to a llandi cap Sweeptake of 20 cove each, 10 cove ft. Second horse to receive 25 sovs out of the stakes. Mr E. Peel's ch h Tanworth 5 yrs, Bst 51b Mr G. Cook's hr h lied Rover, 5 yrs, Bst 51b....(M. Jones) 2 Marquis of Westminster's hr c Oswald, 4 yrs....(Edwards) 3 Mr Houldsworth's ch c Turban, Mr Johnson's eh c Jupiter, Mr Allanson's br in Lady Moore Carew, Sir G. Pigot's b c Al tainont, Mr Mostvu's eb f Usury, Sir J. Gerard's hr g Billinge, Sir J. Boswell's b c The Stag. Capt Lamb's b in Miss Charlotte, Mr Robinson's hr c Stockport, Sir Thos. Stanley's eh g Jacob Faithful, Lord Derby's ch c Amurath, and Mr Tomes's b g by Bedlamite also started, but were not placed by the judge. Nine declared and three paid.—Betting: 31 to 1 agst Red Rover; to 1 agst Usury; 6 to I agst Jupiter; 10 to I agst The Stag ; 10 to 1 agst Billiuge. Fifteen started—si,; false starts; Jacob Faithful went off at a terrible rate several times. Miss Char lotte took the lead, Red Rover followed, Jupiter was third. On the second round Red Rover came out at the Two-year-old Post ; at the Castle Pole Tanworth challenged, and won easily by three lengths; a beautiful race. Fifty Sovereigns, the gift of Mr. George Stratton of the Royal Ilu tel , added to Swe epstak e s of 5 - sovs . each. ' Grosvenor LCourse, Minot o ne arid a quarter. ord arrow' s b in Cattublarina 6 yrs Derby's b h Donald, r.; yrs (Hopwood) 1 Sir 'l'. Stanley's h Intrig m 4s v r Mr Price's ch c Ludford, by Nira,i' i i, s a 3 Two paid.-5 to 4on Intr t itiu ' er ) : "r ; . B won easy. 4 A Maiden Plate of £5O, in speeie, gitt of the Stand Com mittee, added to a Sweepstakes of E sovs each. Heats, two miles. 7 subs. • Mr Nanney's h c Bravo, by Flexible, 3 yrs..(M. Jones) 1 1 Mr T. Barrow's bc by Langar, out of Elector, •{ yrs..,. 2 2 rdL: THE THEATRE ROYAL, This theatre was opened by the regular company yesterday week. Mr. Dowton and Mr. Kean have also appeared each successive night in most of the characters for which their names are deservedly esteemed by the lovers of the drama. Shakspeare's plays of " Henry IV," " Hamlet," and the " Merchant of Venice," (the two former having bee❑ twice acted,) have drawn tolerable houses on each night of then re presentation. Mr. Kean's engagement was for twelve nights, seven of which have already expired, and which will be conclud ed on Saturday. Dowton, who for a long time has been a favourite in Liverpool, took his benefit on Friday evening, in the comedy. of " Town and Country" and the " Hypocrite." The latter piece, although it affords an opportunity for the dis play of Mr. Dowtun's ability as a comedian, is, nevertheless, a most licentious and reprehensible performance. Two nights previously it was chosen as an after-piece, and, if we may be lieve the announcement contained in the playbills of Friday, it was then received " with the most enthusiastic approbation." The " approbation" of Wednesday evening, however, was not the means of drawing together a crowded audience to witness its second representation; for, when the curtain was drawn up, there were not more than from seventy to eighty persons iu both the pit and boxes together; and, during the remainder of the evening, empty benches were to be seen in every part of the house. The whole went off in a very flat and spiritless manlier. No respectable female, we are sure, could sit and listen to th e double entendres and libertine ribaldry with which this piece abounds without feeling herself grossly insulted. The public did well to mark their disapprobation of this mass of obscenity by all but deserting the theatre on the night when it was last presented, although the principal characters in the comedy were supported with more than ordinary ability. Mr. Dowtou has since, no doubt, discovered the mistake which was committed in taking the " Hypocrite" for his benefit evening, in preference to a character in which he is without a rival and which he has made peculiarly his own—we mean Sir John Falstaff: Had that been done, the result would have been far different—far more gratifying to the public, and more beneficial in a pecu niary respect to Mr. Dowton. . . . „ . _ Yesterday evening, " Richard the Third" ( Richard by Mr. Kean) and the inelOdrama of " Tekeli" were performed. To night, the admired comedy of a "NeW Way to pay old Debts" (Sir Cue, OcerregeAby Mr. Kean) will be bronght out; and to-morrow " Othello" will be produced; Mr. Kean and our uunt tragedian, Mr. Stuart, will sustain the principal parts, of Othello and logo. Mr. Dowton left this town for America on Sunday, in the packet ship New England. LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S CONSERVATIVE Sod ET V. At a monthly meeting of the Liverpool Tradesmen's Conser . vative Society, held April 25th, 1836, the following address was unanimously agreed to:— " We, the conservative tradesmen of the borough of Liver pool, impressed with a sense of our duty to our country, our King, and our God, and anxious for the preservation iu uniut paired integrity of our glorious constitution, feel ourselves called upon to avow the principles which have impelled us to enter into a righteous confederacy for the protection of our rights and privileges as free-burn Britons, as wed as for the purpose of resisting the mote effectually the destructive encroachments of an unprincipled baud of infidel democrats, and to express our firm resolution never to desert the sacred cause which we have deliberately espoused, but to redouble our exertions for the deli verance of our unhappy country from the merciless grasp of the united radical and popish factions, by whom its laws, its liberties, and its religion ate threatened with annihilation. " We avow it as our conscientious belief; that upon the main tenance of our protestant church depends in a great degree the prosperity of the British einpit e, and that its tolerant genius has procured for the people of this country the enjoyment of a mea sure of rational freedom unparalleled in the history of the world; and we, therefore, canout but view with alarm and indignation the treacherous attacks frost which our protestant brethren in Ireland are now suffering. We believe that the measure of church spoliation which the present ministry, by the assistance of a tyrannic majority in the House of Commons, endeavoured to foist upon the country, was introduced by them at the dicta tion of that reckless demagogue, by whose parliamentary but uticonstdujional influence they are enabled to retain that power, for the sake of which thee have compromised their characters and sactiliced their principles. We 'are convinced that the ie sistance now offered in that country to the payment of tithes is prompted by the uninitigable violence of the popish priesthood and their agitating minions; and that they are accountable for that loss of life which has of late years ensued froin the adoption by tile superstitious peasantry of their diabolical counsel. Whilst we cannot withhold our pity from the ignorant and priest-ridden insurgents, we must declare that the unhappy consequences oc casioaed by the lawless violence of the sufferers must be viewed as exactly on a par wills the deathwounds received by the deter mined burglar who struggles. to retain his plunder. We consi der that the Irish clergy, i u common with the clergy of the Established Church of Engl an d, h ave an unalienable and an unimpeachable right to the whole of that property which the piety of our ancestors has conferred upon them for their main tenance, and to which the law has recognised their claim; and we pronounce the attempt to alienate any portion of this pro perty, and its appropriation to any other than strictly ecclesias tical purposes,ao be sacrilegious in its nature, and equivalent in atrocity to Abe destruction of protestant places of worship, to which it may ultimately lead. The ministers in their attacks upon protestantism, which they have introduced under the spe cious disguise of church rejOrm, seek only to conciliate the Burnish priesthood, whom they will find it impossible to satisfy until they are able to erase protestantisni from Ireland, and to supersede its beneficent sway by the iron bondage of popery. " With equal alarm do we contemplate the measure of Irish municipal reform recently passed by the House of Commons. This is another sop thrown by our liberal ministers into the insatiate jaws of the Rornish monster. The effect of this mea sure in its present shape will be to transfer from the hands of protestants that power with which they have been invested for the purpose of preserving the integrity of the empire into the hands of the degraded slaves of a rough-riding priesthood, who will compel them by the terrors of excommunication to vote ex plicitly as they may direct. By this means-a numerical majority of inhabitants of Irish towns, confined to a single sect, moved by an undivided spiritual power, embracing . , indeed constituted, in a great part, by the ignorance, the superstition, the pauperism, the disci fiction of the place, will be permitted to e::eicise uticon , trolled dominion over its intelligence, property, and love of legal order. We trust that the House of Lords will resist to the last the creation of such an authority to be vested in hands which can employ it no otherwise than for purposes subversive of en lightened liberty, of protestant security, and of British power. On this subject a factious, confederate, self-discordant majority iu the House of Commons has certainly outvoted the great con servative party; but there are resources in the constitution of this monarchy for redeeming what has thus been lost, and for vindicating what, through an impulse of momentary rashness, or a scheme of calculating selfishness, may be temporarily in jured; and we earnestly hope that the House of Lords, unde terred by the brutal threats which have been levelled at them, will avail themselves of these salutary resources for the purpose of once more frustrating the knavish designs of the arch-agitator and his perjured satellites. " Believing, as we du, that the balance of power in the Bri tish constitution, has been so. nicely adjusted by the wisdom, prudence, and foresight of our ancestors, as to secure, in their greatest amplitude, the benefits of good government and en lightened liberty, we proclaim our hostility to the preposterous schemes which have been recently avowed fur reforming the House of Lords. Any attack upon their independence we view as an indirect attack upon the throne itself: and the moment any reconstruction of the House of Peers takes place—that moment will seal the doom of the monarchy, and secure the eventual triumph of republicanism. The industrious and in telligent people of this great country will soon discern that the peers of England are emphatically fighting the battle of the people, and it is no less certain that they will be soon requited for their patriotic exertions by the spontaneous tribute of a nation's gratitude. Though much has been conceded to the incessant clamour of the democratic party iu this country, the inroads which they have been enabled to make upon the constitution have only encouraged them to be more ut gent and inure unreasonable iu their demands. "'They now insist upon the further extension of the franchise to all householders, whether they may have paid their taxes or net; and their next cry will be for universal suffrage, divested of every qualification. .To this the conservatives are decidedly opposed, inasmuch as the principle of a property qualification is instinct!) , recognised by the British constitution, and because its abolition would superinduce evils it remediable in their nature, and incalculable in their extent. "To vote by ballot and annual parliaments (two other crotchets of the radical party) we are equally opposed, be lieving that the one would lead to the destruction of that inde pendence of feeling and of action, which, we hope, will ever constitute the proud characteristic of a British voter; and that the Gtier would keep thisgreat commercial community (already too much distracted by party spirit) in a state of perpetual poli tical excitement, without increasing, in the least degree, the responsibility of our representative legislators. " We have nu interest in the perpetuity of abuses ; and ou this account we avow ourselves as the onlygenuine iitia rational reformers in the country, though our opponents ,ridiculously assume that appellation to themselves. But we wish to reform fir the purpose of renovating and preserving the decayed por tions of the social or political fabric. To all ascertained and proved abuses in church and state, which may have crept in through the lapse of time, and by the operation of other causes, we are willing, ready, and desirous of applying an effectual and seasonable remedy: but we do not consider demolition to be equivalent with reform—nor ruthless destruction to by synony mous with needful improvement. " We also wish to draw the attention of our townsmen in particular, to the painful and humiliating fact, that one of our representatives has been guilty of the greatest dereliction of political principle. Introducing himself to the notice of the free burgesses of Liverpool as a friend to the constitution, he obtained from them those suffrages and that trust which he has subsequently so faithlessly forfeited, We deem it be our impe rative duty to strain every nerve for the purpose of superseding him by a staunch Conservative. While thus alluding to the re presentation of Liverpool, we wish to express our perfect satis factio❑ with the consistent, sedulous, and dignified deportment of Lord Sandon, in the House of Commons. We are happy to re cognise in him a steady friend to the monarchy and the established religion of our country, and are only sorry that he has not the co-operation of a more worthy associate, and a man of more congenial sentiments. " Finally, we strenuously urge all true conservatives to unite in one firm phalanx, for the purpose of rescuing our country front the baneful domination of the whig-radical popish cabinet, and of returning into the Commons house of parliament men of sound constitutional principles • men who will s t an d i n t h e breach, and boldly stein the rushing torrent of sedition and re publicanism ; and by so doing, avert the horrors of anarchy, and establish, upon a more permanent basis than ever, the peace and prosperity of this mighty empire." DREADFUL A CCIDENT .—On Friday, a fine boy came by his death in the following distressing manner: his father, we under stand, was a farmer in Gloucestershire, and had come over to this port with his family and domestics for the purpose of pro ceeding to America; the deceased child was in company of his little brothers and sisters walking out with a servant girl, when passing over the bridge at the Prince's dock, the on fortunate little fellow stumbled against the rail of iron which separates the foot-path from the cart-way, and a cart crossing the bridge at the time, passed over part of his body and his head; when taken up he was literally crushed to atoms, the contents of the brain and bowels had protruded. Au inquest was held the same day on the body, and a verdict of accidental death re turned. THE LIVERPOOL STAN DARD Emperial Parliament. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--WEDNESDAY. AGRICULTVUA I. DISTRESS. The Marquis of CHA IS DOS, on the motion that the orders of the day be read, pursuant to his notice, called attention to the distressed state of agriculture, and the propriety of allowing the interests of agriculture to participate in the contemplated reductions of taxation. His lordship, in the course of an eloquent statement, insisted strongly uu the right of agricul turists to justice—and strict justice was all they asked. He then entered into details for the purpose of showing how little had been done for them in the late reductions of taxation. The taxes which had been removed amounted to eight millions 9;) odd thousand pounds; but when he came to examine how much relief had been given to the landed interest, he found that not more than half a million had been removed from the laud. It would be found that in the reductions which had taken place there had been those which, to a certain extent, had benefited the agriculturists; and amongst other items he mentioned the repeal of the duty on tiles, which gave them £30,000; then there was the repeal of the duty on fire insurances iu respect to agricultural buildings, and house tax. But let him say, that while these were beneficial to the interest which he had advo cated, still they were items of general taxation. Let him not be charged with this, that the repeal of the house tax was ex clusively for the benefit of the agriculturists ; they derived some benefit from it, it was true; but the greatest benefit was given to large towns, and not to agricultural districts He did not ask the house to pledge itself to any specific remedy, but he did ask it to determine that the agriculturists should share in any future benefit or relief." His lordship concluded by moving a reso lution to the effect that it is the opinion of this house that in the application of any surplus revenue towards relieving the burdens of the country, by reduction of taxation or otherwise, due regard should be had to the nece ss ity o f a ff ording a portion in terest. Mr. relief to the agricultural Mr. W. - DUNCOMBE seconded the motion. Lord J. Rt SSELL contended that it was a narrow view of the question to suppose that the agricultu r i s t s did no t s h are w ith the rest of the community in any general relief from taxation. After alluding to the malt tax, which the house had refused to repeal, the noble lord proceeded to observe that the new poor law act had produced a saving of 49 per cent in the agricultural districts. It was by such measures that real relief would be afforded. The arrangement of the tithe question was another, which, if adopted, would effect much good; and the manage ment of the county rate upon better principles would also be found to operate most favourably. He would not enter then into the question of agricultural distress ; if he did he should have to bring statements from the evidence taken before the agricultural committee, in opposition to that of the noble lord. When that committee had closed their labours, he hosted that they would present a body of evidence such as would enable the house to come to a fair and dispassionate opinion ; but he must protest against any conclusion drawn from a part of that evidence only. The Earl of DARLINGTON supported the motion, which after further discussion, in which Mr. Hume, Sir James Graham, Sir R. Peel ,and others took part, was rejected by a majority of 36; the numbers, on division, being for the motion, 172.; against it, 208. Adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. The Belfast railway bill was read a third time and passed. CHANCERY AND APPELLATE JURISDICTION 'SILLS. The LORD CHANCELLOR, pursuant to notice, presented two bills, one regarding the administration of justice in the Court of Chancery, and the other respecting the appellate jurisdiction of that house. The object was to separate the functions of the Lord Chancellor. The first bill provides for the appoiutment of .a Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Chancery; the amount of salary was not determined upon, but it certainly would not be less than that of the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. The second bill limited the duties of the Lord Chancellor to administer its appellate jurisdiction by constantly presiding in the House of Lords, or in the privy council—the sitting for appeals not to be always suspended by the proroga tion of parliament—the equity jurisdiction of the Exchequer to be abolished. In the course of his statements his lordship men tioned that at a very early period he should bring forward the imprisonment for debt abolition bill. If that passed, it was pro posed to abolish the Court of Review. Its abolition would not be now proposed, because its machinery might be brought to aid the working of the imprisonment for debt bill. After some remarks from Lords ABINGER and WyrsFolio, who said that they should reserve their objections until the com mittee, the bills were read a first time.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TherisDAY. Mr. CLAY brought up the report of the committee on the Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames junction railway bill.—Or dered to lie on the table. COPYRIGHT ACT. Mr. BUCKINGHAM obtained leave to bring in a bill to repeal so much of the copyright act as enjoins the gratuitous delivery of eleven copies of every publi s h e d work to eleven of the public institutions, colleges, and libraries of the different towns of the kingdom. GRAND JURIES (IRELAND.) Lord MORPETH brought in a bill to consolidate and amend the grand jury laws (Ireland.) EXECUTION OF MURDERERS. Mr. Act 'minx moved for leave to bring in a bill to repeal so much of the statutes of 9 Geo. I V., c. 31, and 10 Geo. IV. c. 34, as relates to the period of-the execution of persons convicted of murder, and the prison regulations as to murderers under sen tence. He would not, as the introduction of the bill would not be opposed, enter into any lengthened statements of the evils of the existing system. One part of the proposed bill would alter the prison discipline as affected murderers, for if his object in lengthening the time between sentence and execution should be attained, it would be necessary that they should be kept on something beyond bread an d water. We'understoood the hen. member to propose 14 or 15 days as in Scotland, and not ex ceeding 27 days.—Leave given. The house was shortly after counted out. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY. The house, during the short period it continued sitting, was wholly occupied in the reception of petitions and returns ordered on vaious subjects. LOCAL NEWS. SINGULAR DISCUVERY.—Our readers are perhaps aware that at the last assizes in Liverpool, an action was tried before Baron Parke, in which a Mr. Quggin, of the Isle of Man, was plain tiff, and Mr. Duff, agent, of Liverpool, defendant, to recover the amount of two boxes of type said to have been sent from London to the care of the latter, in order to be shipped to the Isle of Man ; and on which occasion a verdict was given against Mr. Duff, on the ground that the signing of the carrier's book was, in effect, a delivery of the goods to the d e fendant, so as to render him liable for them. On Saturday last, a workman em ployed on the premises of Mr. Chandler, near the Old Swan, whilst engaged in digging the foundation for a new building, discovered at sonic distance underneath the surface and over which a shrub had been planted, the types in question. In formation of the circumstance was immediately conveyed to the Police-office, from whence an officer was despatched to take charge of the property. At present there is no clue to lead to a discovery of the person or persons who muat have stolen the goods. In consequence of the immense number of salmon conveyed to Liverpool, &c., by the steam-vessels in the Solway, a piece anew salmon cannot be had in Carlisle market for less than 2s. per lb. The Marquis of Westminster made a return of ten per cent. to his tenants, upon their rents, at the last rent day. FEMALE PENITENTIARY.—The annual meeting of this phi lanthropic institution took place on Friday at two o'clock, in the room belonging to the Charitable Institution, in Slater street—Mr. Crook in the chair. After the preliminary busi ness of the meeting had been gone through, the Rev. Mr. Lister rose to propose the first resolution, which he prefaced by a few remarks on the necessity of multiplying in.stitutions of that nature; he was averse to the system of increasing the ac commodation of the present one, because such a system would not permit of that uudived attention and strictness which, he re gretted to say, was quite necessary to prevent the admission of unworthy persons. He w as o f op i n i on t h at p l aces o f r e f uge ought'. to be established for the reception of the destitute and abandoned, without asking questions as to their sincerity of re pentance, but that the funds of the penitentiary should be de villed to persons who were really sincere in their professions of "abandoning their wicked course of life. Several other gentle men spoke on the subject before them, and on the gratifying state of the funds. Mr. Hodgson, in adverting to the observa tions of Ai r. Lister, was afraid they might have the effect of checking the ardour of the ladies present, in the furtherance of the benevolent objects they were that d ty met to promote; but he begged they would not close their doors so long as funds re mained, and when those were gone, that they would seek for an addition where they were sure to find it, as the cause they were engaged in was that of Christianity itself. Thanks were given to the chairman, and the meeting shortly after separated. Seve ral ladies were in attendance. A letter was read from an in mate, expressive of thankfulness at her present comfortable cir cumstances. • THE Dock QuusTiort.--Deputations from the contending parties are on their way to London, to fight this question before the House of Commons. It is not known when the bill will be brought forward. Tug Infsii MUNICIPAL BILI,.—A requisition calling upon the mayor to convene a public meeting to petition the king on the "present critical r usition of the Irish Municipal Reform Bill," has been gut uo and presented to his worship who has called a meeting for Fiiday next at the Court Room. LIVERPOOL House or binusray.—The woollen factories of Halifax, Yorkshire, have recently received a small accession of strength from our House of Industry, by the transmission of a number of the boys from of that establishment. The last ex portation amounted to thirty-three, whose ages were from twelve to fourteen years. Their appearance was such as to reflect much credit on the managers of the Workhouse STEEPLE CHASE AT AINTREE RACE COURSE.—This match, which has been pending sonic time past, between Mr. Sirde field's The Duke and Mr. Hornby's black horse Sweep, for £2OO aside, came off at Aintree, on Friday. Much interest was excited, in consequence of the two horses having figured to gether at the great steeple chase which took place on the 20th of February last. Both horses went off well together, and on coining to the first hurdle they both cleared it in gallant style, Sweep leading, who, wishing to make sure his vantage ground, rattled on at a good pace to the second. But, however, in his attempt to dispose of it according to his first essay, he swerved and failed, came in contact with the rail, which he snapped in two, and cut himself in a very severe manner. Although the rider was not thrown, the accident threw him out of the race, and he gave up, leaving Captai❑ Becher to dispose of the rest in his own way. Much disappointment was experienced at the result, the most sanguine hopes being entertained by many of a first-rate display of real steeple chasing. The company on the ground were highly respectable, the horsemen, for once, out-numbering the pedestrians. Two other races took place be tween some "cock-tails," one half a mile, and the other three quarters of a mile, in one of which, Mr. Sirdefield proved him self the winner against Captain Becher. CHRISTMAS WEATHER IN MAY.—For several days at sun rise there have been pools in this neighbourhood sheeted with ice, a little of which was shown in St. John's Market on Satur day morning by a gardener, who had brought it from the coun try. Yesterday morning at half-past five o'clock the therm°. ter stood at 36 at a window with a northern aspect on the drawing-room floor of a house in Mount Pleasant. LAUNCH OF THE WILLIAM JARDINE.—This noble ship, burthen 700 tons, was launched yesterday, from the building yard of Messrs. Humble and Milerest, Trentham-street. The William Jardine was built for the late William Crutchlou Mo lyneux, Esq., whose lamented and sudden death occurred a few weeks ago, and, since that event, has been purchased by Sir John Tobin. A fashionable party of about sixty ladies and gentlemen, friends of Sir John Tobin, were entertained, after witnessing the launch, on board the William Penn steamer, and in the evening a party of gentlemen dined at the Mersey Hotel. The entertainments provided by Mr. Horne on board the steamer, and at his hotel, were given in the true spirit of an unlimited order from the owner of the William Jardine to fur nish all the delicacies of the season, together with the most costly wines which his cellars could supply. OPTHALMIC INFIRMARY.—We have been requested by Mr. Neill to state that he did not perform all the operations for ca taract to which we alluded in the STANDARD of Friday, and that in our notice of them we omitted to include the name of his co-adjutor Mr: Edwards. JAMES 111`QUREM, Esq.—Our distinguished and excellent fellow-citizen left Glasgow this morning for London, whence, after a short stay, be proceeds to Falmouth to take the first pac ket for the West Indies. Mr. M'Queen has been employed by the projectors of the Colonial Bank to visit the different islands under the British sway for the purpose of organizing head banks at Barbados and Jamaica, and branch banks in the smaller islands. No one can be more competent to such a duty, for which his great experience of the constitution of colonial society and his knowledge of colonial wants peculiarly fit him; and if his ❑umerous,friends here deplore the necessity which has called from amongst them, at a comparatively advanced period of life, one whose singleness of mind, unbending integrity, and high attainments thew have had such ample opportunities of becom ing acquainted with, they are at least consoled by the reflection, that he is engaged in a congenial and honourable mission, in the successful issue of which his country has a deep stake. We most regret, however, that the short time which elapsed between his departure and the announcement of his journey prevented his receiving a public demonstration of regard, which must now be reserved for his return in the spring of the next year.— Glasgow Courier, Saturday. SHAKSPEARE'S BIRTIIDAY.—The anniversary of the birth day of the immortal bard of Avon was celebrated at Bolton, on Tuesday last, when about thirty of his admirers dined together at the Red Cross Inn, Mr. J. R. Bridson in the chair. The chairman, in an appropriate speech, did due honour to "the noble of nature, the anniversary of whose birthday they had met to celebrate, and concluded with proposing the immortal memory of William Shakspeare,'" which was drunk by the company standing in solemn silence. After which the memo ries of " David Garrick, the reformer of the British stage," of "Ben Johnson," "Colley Cibber," "Tom King," "Edmund Kean," " Otway," " Byron," " Alexander Wilson," were drunk with due honour?. Mr. Hale afterwards proilosed— " Health and prosperity to Sheridan Knowles, the living poet and actor," which was drunk with musical honours. A round of sentiments were afterwards given from the writings of Shak speare, and the company departed about twelve o'clock, after reciprocating in the " feast of reason and the flow of soul."— Bolton Chronicle. NEWSPAPERS. —The Chancellor of the Exchequer has con ceded the size of the sheet to the country proprietors, a great many of whom are in London watching the bill. The maximum for the penny stamp is 1,530 superficial :itches. The question of the half-penny stamp, on a half-sheet, is yet undecided. COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE.—We understand that the two men, Pidding and Hadfield, who were convicted at the late assizes for selling forged stamps, have had their sentence reduced to transportation for seven years. At the Bristol sessions, on Monday, a gentleman claimed to he exempted from serving on the jury in consequence of having lost his right arm. Mr. Serjeant Ludlow, who presided, was puzzled to know how the loss of au arm incapacitated a person from acting as us juror, when the gentleman explained that it was impossible for hi►u to take the hook in his "• right hand" to be sworn, as is always required. The objection was then al lowed to be good, and the left-handed gentleman was permitted to depart. DEATH 01 , THE HON. FRANCIS OH GHEY.—It is our pain ful duty to record a melancholy loss from drowing, which took place on Monday morning, the 25th ult., at Wouldham, near Rochester. The - Hon. Francis de Grey, one of the younger sons of Lord Walsingham, a most promising and amiable young man, about twenty-one years -of age, imprudently entered the water with all his clothes on to secure a boat that was-drifting down the Medway, although repeatedly urged by the reverend ' gentleman who was with him not to do so. Unfortunately he was unable to reach the boat, when, becoming exhausted, he sunk, notwithstanding the most strenuous efforts of his friend to save him, who, in so doing, narrowly escaped sharing a similar fate. After a search of some hours the body was picked up a short distance from the spot where it sank.—London Pape,. ELOPEMENT.-011 Tuesday a young lady, resident at Mans field, a minor, eloped with the cousin of one of the members for North Derby, and was secured in wedl oc k a t G retna - green, on Thursday. All immediate pursuit had been prevented by the declaration of the young lady, on leaving home, that she was going to visit her aunt at Sutton-in-Ashlield. She, however, walked out on the road to Chesterfield, and being speedily joined by an old admirer, ( who was then generally supposed to be crossing the Atlantic,) accompanied him in a gig he had hired at Chesterfield, to that town, through which she, to avoid suspicion, walked. The .r i entlentan having taken possession of his own gig and horse, which he had previously left at the inn, speedily overtook the lady, and drove her rapidly to Monsal Dale, where they came up with a coach going to Manchester, in which, places flaying been secured at Nottingham in a feigned name, the fugitives were quickly seated, and, on their arrival at Manchester, started for the border. The gentleman's recent history is remarkable. He had received some government ap pointmeut in Canada, to take possession of which he actually set sail ; but the vessel in which he was going out encountered some of the late severe gales, and was wr e :k e d on t h e north of Ireland, about a fortnight ago; our hero, as well as other pas sengers, swam for his life, and suffered severely, having been some days without food, besides losing all his property. On his return to his native county, a renewal of his addresses took place, and quickly ended as we have recorded.—Cheste r field Gazette. A RUSTY Swoon OF JusztcE.—At Sierra Leone, in the Year 1830, a man who spoke no European language but Spanish, and who was entirely ignorant of English forms and ceremo nies, was placed at the bar of one of the courts upon the charge of murder. It was the custom to draw from its scabbard a large sword of justice---an imposing performance. The atmos phere of Sierra Leone is lamentably damp, and the sword had become lusty, and being rusty was not easily induced to leave its case. Many vigorous attempts were made. One stout neuro held the scabbard, another tugged at the hilt. These ala i - 111 11 1g preparations were narrowly watched by the trembling prisoner. At last, out flew the blade, and up sprang the criminal, scream g "Misericordia!—misericordia !" and struggling to escape. Ile expected nothing short of instant decapitation, and some tune passed before he could be comforted with the assurance that the gallows, and ❑ut the sword, awaited him.— The White Mun's Grace. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY. SUGAR DUTIES. Mr. GROTE presented a petition from the association of Easi India and China merchants in London, praying fur the equa. lization of the sugar duties. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS' BILL. The house, on the motion of the Attornev-General, went into committee on this bill. The remainin g c la uses, and the sche dules were agreed to. Several other bills were forwarded a stage.---Adjourned. THE LATE JAMES WOOD, ESQ., OF GLOUCESTER, (F r om the Gloucester Chronicle.) Just before the procession started from the late residence of the deceased, a Mr. James Wood, of Islington, introduced him self as one of the nearest of kin, and requested to be permitted to attend the funeral. He was told that as the arrangements had been completed it could not be altered. He, huwever, at tended at the church; and, we understand, has since entered a caveat against probate being granted to the executors. The following letter has also appeared in the Times, from another individual of the name of Wood :—_ _ " To the Editor of the Times. " Sir,—A report is in circulation that Alderman Matthew Wood, of London, is a relative of the late James Wood, of Gloucester, and that there are no other relatives. I beg you will permit me, through the medium of The Times, to state that Alderman Matthew Wood has not the most distant family con nexion with the deceased; and that there are nine cousins next of kin, my father, Thomas Wood, being the surviving male branch of the family. Thomas Helps, Esq., of London, and James Helps. Esq., of Gloucester, are amongst the next of kin. These facts are well known in the city of Gloucester. Should the surmises of the public press hi reference to the disposal of the estate of the late James 'Wood prove correct, it is probable that the relatives will combine in calling upon the Court of Chancery to order a more natural and equitable distribution of the property.—l atn, Sir, yours respectfully, "16, Prince's street Stamford-street T. WOOD, Juts., London, April 25, 1836. " *,,,* We have struck out the concluding sentence, because it assumes that to be fact which is to be the subject of inquiry." We understand the writer of the above letter is a grandson of Mr. World, formerly of Barnwood Mill, near this city, and a nephew of Mrs. Susan Cole, who for many years kept a vegetable stall in our market, and now resides in Barton-street. We are authorised in giving the following as a true copy of the will : i• Instructions fur the will of me, James Wood, Esq., of Glou cester : "I request my friends, Alderman Wood, of London, 111.1'., John Chadborn, of Gloucester, Jacob Osborne, of Gloucester, and John S. Surman, of Gloucester, to be nay executors, and I appoint them executors accordingly ; and I desire that they will take possession of and retain to themselves all my ready loonies, securities, and personal estate, subject to the payment of my just debts, and such legacies as I may hereafter direct; and VI ii h respect to my real estate, I shall dispose of the same to such persons, and in such parts, as I shall by any writing in dorsed herein direct. Witness my hand this 2d December, 1834, " JAMES WOOD. " I, James Wood. Esq., do declare this to be my will for dis posing of my estates as directed by my instructions. " I declare my wish that my executors shall have all my pro perty which I may not dispose of, and that all my estates, real and personal, shall go amongst them and their heirs in equal proportions, e.objtet to my - debts and to any legacies or bequests of any part thereof, if any, which I may hereafter make. In witness whereof; I have to this my last will set my hand this 3d December, 1831, "JAMES WOOD. " Signed and published by the said testator, as and for his will, in otu presence, " ANN LEWIS. "EDW. SWANN. " WILLIAM VEAII.E." [Mr. Wood's real property has been estimated at one million, and his personal property at £1,800,000. The will holds out the prospect of a glorious harvest for the lawyers.] SPECIMENS OF A NEW DICTIONARY.—No. CLUB.—A Subscription-house, that consists of a few hundred members who hate each other most cordially that they ever were brought together; each one imagining that he is the great man of the place, and that others are admitted through his sufferance. A place for procuring cheap and nasty dinners, under the plea that—l am dining at "my Club." A convenient address to be given to inconvenient acquaintances, and to the fair sex in the ambrosial regions of the New Road. A place where one may bully the waiters, sotto voce, without their daring to reply for fear of being reported for insolence. A place where one may have the opportunity of black-balling his betters with impunity, and thus indulge in honourable revenge.—NumEnous Sue- SCRIBERS. Olt THODOX y.—The promulgation of opinions, both orally and literally, tending to subvert cliristianity ; and a sudden and de termined recantation of all such opinions, to avoid the certainty of being kicked out of a Regius Professorship of Divinity.— H A NIP ilgN. SCIENCE.—The letters of the alphabet, A to Z, tacked to one's name, and to be editor of a clopagy.—DINNISH L.tnin au. lsneeitNDENcE.—To rail against pensions and pensioners all one's life; to cry them down in prose and verse, historical, ethical, and satirical; and then to accept £3OO a year from the Whigs, as a re►sard for the abuse of my sovereign's brother.- I'. To refuse Faraday a pension, and leaving the refusal to Tom Young. who bungles it, to be obliged to grant it, cap in hand, to the bumptious hale bookbinder.—ME ',BOURNE. To have a weight on one's shoulders like the Old Man of the Sea; and to use endeavours to shake it ofl in vain. To meet Liston face to face, and stare him out of countenance.— MourETH. To go to the Deaf Duke's and to sister Blackwood's parties, and to laugh, and chat, and quiz, and be funny, though he is so To pay whom, what, and when I please, and pay nothing if it suits me; and the fiddlers be d—d.—OSBALDISTON.—Age. Co NSER V ATI V E FESTIVAL. —DINNER OF THE LANCASTER II EA RT OF OAK CLUB. The members of this association dined together at the Assem hly-rooms, Lancaster, with the use of which they wereobiigingly accomodated by the Lady Patroness, on Monday last. The Lancaster Gazette of Saturday contains a full report of the speeches delivered on the occasion, but. as the pre-occupation of our space precludes us from transcribing any of them, we content ourselves with taking the subjoined article from the columns of our highly respectable contemporary : When we last week ventured to predict that the Heart of Oak dinner would prove a glorious demonstration of loyal and constitutional feeling, the reader may be sure we did not hazard the•anticipation without first being toles ably well assured that that anticipation would be fulfilled. We had, in fact, every reason to believe, froth the number of tickets at the time dis posed of—from the pledges of support secured in influential quarters—aud from the spirit of devotion th a t an i mate d all who were engaged i n th e preliminary arrangements, that, humanly speaking, failure was out of the question. The hour of fulfil ment is now past; and, pointing to subsequ e nt co l umns, we as k the reader it' anything could b e more perfectly —more trium phantly successful than the effort made ou Monday last to give expression to those sentiments of loyalty to the King, attach ment to the church, and affection for our dear country, of which it is our pride and boast to be the humble advocate? We need not wait for reply. Indeed, if evidence were needed in such a ease we have it abundantly in the chagrin and ill-temper mani fested by out opponents on the occasion. We understand that, fur want of a better objection, it is said there was no call for such a demonstration, and that, therefore, it must be construed into a wanton and gratuitous attack upon the feelings of our radical neighbours. This may be a liberal species of argument, and, according to the modern acceptation of the term, we be lieve it is; but, undoubtedly, any , thing more unreasonable— any thing more childish never yet betrayed the petulance of a disappointed heart. If conservatives remain passive, as their practice has too long been, and make no show of strength, then are they, indeed, a dying faction—a small party in the state never heard of, and, of course, unworthy of respect or consider ation. Thus, retirement and inertness are not enough to pro tect the conservative from observation and insult; and then, forsooth, if, when provoked by impertinence or impelled by a higher feeling, he advances to assert his principles, he is de nounced as an agitator and an assailant! And this is the mea sure of liberality our liberal opponents would fain mete out to us! STATE OF IHADE. There is no material alteration in the woollen cloth trade of Leeds. The demand fur low cloths continues. its good.as it has been for some time past, and fitter good's are rather more in re quest. Front the caution which the buyers have of late observed, it is probable that the present demand may'Oontinue for some time. Bradford- market, on Thursday, was as brisk as it has been for some weeks past, the principal demand being for six-quarter merinos. The sales of wool were rather limited, but prices remained firm; and the purchases of yarn were not so extensive as they have been for some time past. Halifax market, on Saturday. was very dull, and goods are beginning to accumulate iu the Piece Hall. Prices are pretty stationary. Pit ICES OF IN DiGi).-At the sales commencing the 19th, and closing the 27th April, 1836, consisting of 5219 chests, of which the following are the numbers at the respective prices, viz., Ben gal, 97, at 7s. to 7s. 81; 874, Gs. 6d. to tis. 11d. ; 1483, 6s. to Gs. 5d.; 2088, ss. 6d. to ss. 11d.; 422, ss. to ss. 5d.; 24, under ss. ; Madras, 33, ss. to ss. 6d.; 101, 4s. 6d. to 4s. lid.; 17, 4s. to 45. 5d.; Oude, 27, 3a. bd. to 3s. 11d.; Java, 53, ss. to ss. Gd. ; the biddings were animated, and prices ruled, with little varia tion, at the following rates, as compared with the quarterly sales in January last, viz., Beneals, good and fine, sd, to Bd. higher ; ordinary and middling, shippers and consumers, 6d. to 10d. ; Madras, middling to good, 4d. to 6(1.; Oude 3d. to 40. The quantity bought in for the proprietors has been about 1200 chests, the largest proportion of which were of good and line qualities, fur which there were not orders sufficient to take off the whole. LIVERPOOL POLICE. ASSAULT ON TUE POLICH.—On Friday John Mathews, a respecta ble pig-jobber, was brought before the magistrate charged with as saulting one of the police. Mr. Yates appeared to defend him. Police constable Blackburn stated that he was on duty on the afternoon of the day before in Tithebarn-street, and was called by Mr. Oulton across the road to remove a crowd of persons who obstructed the foot way opposite his shop. He went over and ordered them off, when they returned again, and he again ordered them to move on, and all went away but the prisoner, and he swore he would not go. He then gave the man a push, when he seized him immediately by the collar, and threw him down, and said lie would throttle him (the policeman) if he did not let him go. The prisoner then got up and ran down the street into a house, and effected his escape out of the back door. He afterwards found him, and took him into custody. Mr. Yates said the prisoner was bargaining for some pigs at the time with some others, when he was ordered off by the policeman, who wanted to make him self very officious. He did not feel disposed to go when the police man struck him with his cane, and the consequence was the prisoner collared the policeman ; that was the long and short of the assault. A witness deposed to the prisoner with some others bargaining for some pigs, when the policeman ordered them away, and afterwards struck •the prisoner across the shoulders with his cane ; the prisoner then seized him by the collar. The policeman positively swore that he had not struck the prisoner. Mr. Hall said there unfortunately existed a great prejudice against the policemen. The moment they spoke a word to this class of persons they were greeted with a blow. The same prejudice existed towards them as had existed against the new police in London. He must pay a fine of 2es. and costs, or in default go to the House of Correction for one month. A RESPECTABLE YOUNG MAN.—On Friday, at the police-office, a young man of pocket-picking exterior, was brought before the ma gistrates under a charge of having recommended a very respectable young man to a lodging-house, but who had belied his respectable voucher by running away with his landlord's purse. A female stated that she lived witli'Mr. Parker who keeps a lodging-house near liamson-square, and the prisoner at the bar who had lodged with them came and recommended a person who, he said, was a friend of his, and who was a rery respectable young man from the north. On Wednesday the respectable young man came and had a bed. On the Thursday he came and had dinner, he then went up stairs, and laid down to sleep, and whilst there it appeared he had been busily en faged in ransacking the other rooms. He came down stairs about our o'clock, and then went out but never returned. They found afterwards that they had lost a quantity of things, and went to the young man who had recommended him, who then denied that he knew anything about him, only that he had been a prisoner in Kirk dale Gaol. Mr. Parker deposed that when he went up stairs to bed, -he found his drawers had been ransacked; and that a purse contain ing a sovereign and 5 half-crowns had been taken out, together with a "bran" new waistcoat "all gone." Mr. Hail said, that In point of fact the prisoner had merely got lodgings for another person, who he re presented as his friend, and that that friend took something of theirs ; and they were now charging the young man at the bar with the theft. They must discharge him. AS3AULT.—On Friday, at the PoliCe-office, a lady named Lynch, who had evidently been " nursing her wrath t o ke e p it warm , ap peared to lay a complaint against another female, whose name was Smith, whose face bore striking marks of female warfare, for violently assaulting her. Mrs. Lynch, addressing the magistrate in a terrible fluster, said that the defendant lived near her, and the day before she met her in the street, when they had a few words, when Mrs. Smith, putting herself in a scientific attitude, gave her a tip on the temple. She said to her " this is a very wrong thing my lady, and rather more free than welcome," when, said Mrs. Lynch, waxing warmer as she went on, she seized me by the hair and tore nay cap and my gown, and broke my comb, and see here Sir, here is my comb, and my cap, and my own, abused thi s roa d , ( unwrapp i ng a b un d le of torn clothes out of a handkerchief) ; and see here Sir, (holding up a large tin ket tle), here is the tin can that she paid the little boys a penny a-piece to drum after me round the town."—(Great laughter.) Mr. HALL—" Has she ever done so before 3" Mrs. Lynch—" No, she only gave me sauce before." Mrs. Smith, with female eloquence, said, she was an ill-used wo man, that it was she who ought to complain. She called a witness who deposed that he had seen Mrs. Lynch very badly abuse Mrs Smith, and strike her twice before she struck again. Mr. HALL dismissed the charge, and hoped such a disgraceful row would not occur again betwixt them. INFORMATION.—On Friday, Mrs. Margaret Long, who keeps a pub lic house in Canning-place, was summoned on an information by in spector Martin, for having refused him admission when he knocked at her door about one o'clock on the morning of the 25th. Inspector Martin said he knocked at the door, and said he was an officer, and wanted admission. A person came to the door who immediately walked away, and he heard no more of her. Mr. Crewe, on behalf of the defendant, said she had kept a public-house for 22 years, and had never before had a complaint made against her—that the servant who came to the door was deaf and did not hear him say he was a po lice officer. Eliza Hughes, the servant, deposed that she was dull of hearing. Her mistress had some sailor boarders in the house who had just come in, and when the knock came at the door, her mistress was in bed and told her not to admit any one. She went to the door and said " it was past hours, and she could not open the doors to fill any drink," and she did not hear any one say, " he was an officer."— Inspector Martin said no such answer was given, and that he heard them distinctly say inside that the police were at the door. The ma gistrate said it was lamentable to see defences set up when there was not the shadow of a foundation for them ; they were of opinion that in this case the fine must be 40s and costs. Mr. Crewe afterwards ap plied for the reduction of the tine, but it was refused. UN WHOLESOME MEAT.—On Friday last, at the police-office, James Gregson, who keeps a stall in St. )ohn's market, was fined 5s and costs, for having on the Saturday before exposed for sale 9431hs of beef unfit for food. Samuel Iligginson, who also keeps a stand in St. John's market was fined 10s and costs for exposing for sale 1151bs weight of pork unfit for human food. Mary Brady was tined 2s Gd and costs for exposing for sale in St. John's market Thai of pork unfit for food. Elizabeth Hall, who keeps a fish stand in St. John's market, was fined Is and costs, for exposing for sale on Monday the 25th, slbs of ray, unfit for food. Excise INFORSIATIONS.—On Saturday an information was brought by the officers of ex c i se aga i ns t M r . Mi c h ae l F earon, spirit retailer, for having, on the 15th of January last, had one gallon excess of stock. for which he was liable to the penalty of £l, and the forfeiture of the spirits. The case was fully proved, and the magistrates inflicted the penalty.—An information was brought against Mr. Merton, shop keeper, for having had 15Ibs and Boz of negro-head tobacco in his possession without a permit, for which the forfeiture was sought, and also the penalty of £lo', for " harbouring and concealing." Mr. Kemp, excise officer, stated that on the Gth of February last he had received information that Mr. Merton was in the habit of receiving smuggled tobacco ; on this he obtained a search warrant and took two officers with him. Whilst reading the warrant to Mrs. Merton, Mr. Merton entered the house and walked right through, and immediately called to him that he had found some tobacco on a barrel head in the yard, and gave him Inoz. They then searched about and found Goz more. Afterwards they went down into the cellar, and at the foot of the stairs was a small door, which was lockedieftsling into another cellar. He asked for the key, and was told the place belonged to the people of the next house. He then called to Martindale; the officer, to go and ascertain this, and they said they had nothing to do with it. They then drew the staple of the door and found in the cellar 14i1bs of negro• head tobacco, which Mrs. Merton admitted she had bought of a foreign sailor the night before. Mr. Merton. in defence, said he worked at the sugar-house all day, and did not attend to the shop, and that his wife had bought it without his knowledge. Mr. Hall said the magistrates would mitigate the penalty to one-fourth, to £25. An information was brought against Mr. Duckworth, shopkeeper, for having had 211ss of cut tobacco and Oh of snuff in his possession with out a permit, for which the forfeiture of the goods was sought. An excise officer deposed to finding on the 27th of February 21bs of cut tobaeco and ilb of Scotch snuff in defendant's shop without a permit. Mr. Duckworth, in defence, said it had only been sent for that after noon, and had never been opened. The magistrates ordered the goods to be forfeited.—An information was laid against Mrs. Booth, retailer of spirits, for having had in her possession five gallons of rum, for which she had no permit. An excise officer deposed to finding two copper cans on Mrs. Booth's premises, containing five gallons of rum. Ile requested Mrs. Booth to show him the permit, but it appeared on inquiry that no permit was granted for the sale. The forfeiture only was gone for. The magistrates condemned the spirits.—An informa tion was laid against Josiah Walley for having had sths of tobacco in his possession without a permit, for which the forfeiture was sought. An excise officer deposed to seeing the defendant leaving a tobacco manufactory with a parcel under his arm. He suspected that it was tobacco and stopped him. lie found it was tobacco and asked him for his permit. He said he had not one, that he was in a hurry and should get It next ti me . Th e magistrates condemned the tobacco. CauTioN TO PUBLICANS.—Mary Bellis, who keeps a public-house in Charles-street, was, on Saturday, at the police-office, fined 20s. and costs for having nine prostitute's in her house at nine o'clock on Mon day night.—Benjamin Suminerfield, who keeps a public-house in Murray-street, was fined 20s. and costs for having had seven disor derly girls in his house on Monday night.—Robert Rodgers, who keeps a public-house in Hood.street, was fined 20s. and costs fur having had twelve disorderly girls in his house on Monday night. GAMBLING IN PUBLIC-110USBS.—On Saturday last, at the police office. James Harper, who keeps a public-house in Myrtle-street, was charged with permitting gambling in his house. Mr. Davenport ap peared for the defendant. Martindale deposed to having entered the house at eleven o'clock the day before, ar.d to finding four cab-drivers playing cards together. Mr. Harper was in the house at the time, and might have seen them. Mr. Davenport called a witness, who swore that he had been several times in the house and had seen card-playing there, and whenever Mr. Harper had found it out he had taken the cards from them and thrown them into the fire. It was usual far car drivers to carry cards about with them, and sometimes play in the cars when they had nothing to do. The magistrates fined him 20s. and costs. PERMITTING DRUNK uNNEss IN PUBLIC-lIOL - FRS.—On Saturday last an information was brought against William Corbett, who keeps a beer-house in Oxford -street, by Inspector Heaton, for having had a number of drunken people in the house. Heaton stated that about twenty minutes after eleven o'clock on Saturday night last be found eleven men in the defendant's house, four of whom were quite drunk. Ile also found• two men drunk in a back room. Mrs. Corbett ap roared, and called a witness, who deposed that she went two or three hours every night to assist, and that on the night in question every person in the house was sober. Mr. Hall said whenever he found a ease bolstered up by such swearing he should inflict the full penalty. lie should fine the defendant 40s. and costs. iViAy 8. 18364 To THE COMMON COUNCIL OF LIVERPOOL. GRSTI.RMEN.—Of the numerous complaints made by the public against the late Corporate body, none produced a more general feeling of censure and reproach than the party spirit, and the nepotism as' played by its members in the disposal of all profitable jobs, and snug lucrative situations. To these, and the like proceedings, so opposed to common justice and fair dealing with the public, may be very trail .attributed the almost entire• rejection and mind, gentlemen, by your constituency, of the members of the late council at the first municipal election. Having at that time assisted personally in what all con• sidered to be the purifying of the council chamber, and a security against corruption, by the election of men protecting liberal principles' I consider it my duty to warn you against adopting a similar cause. That many of the appointments to situations nude by you have been greatly and justly censured, even by staunch reformers, is known td all. I would point out the very objectionable Mode pursued by yeti; as regards the appointment and fixing the numerous committees, the power given to them, and more particularly the secret system, (another sin of the old body,) adopted by them in the general management of the business of the town, and in the disposal of all Me good things. The recent appointment' of a superintendent of one of our establishmeuti may be adduced, not only as an act of great injustice to the other nu' merous candidates, if not a violation of good faith. For it is noir known that, in this case as in other instances, a majority of the con►= mittee had been secured for the favoured one, era before the mire''' . tisements appeared announcing the racancy, and calling for applications ! ! A circumstance has come to my knowledge, which, to say the least of it, savours most strongly of what we used to consider the scan dalous doings of the " self-elect," the particulars of which I ma y id a few days lay open before my fellow burgesses. I therefore Oro you this timely hint, that, should the same course be continued, which! has hitherto been pursued, more particularly by a certain attire and busy manager of a certain committee, care will be taken to display to the public the whole workings of these transactions in a way far from agreeable to those implicated. Beware, and bear in mind the 9th of November, Yours, &c.,—A TRUE REFORMER. • Should this not be confirmed by the council, I call upon some ho nest and independent member, (if such there be) elightly to investi gate the recommendations of the committee, I pledge myself, the “quo aninao nefario" will be quickly attended to. 'bipptng intattgenct. MONDAY, MAY 2.—Noon, Wind N. W.—Blowing fresh. Attuivan—The John Marsh, Cluras, from New Orleaus—Mathilde. Croft ; and Eleanor, Fradland, from Rostock. Smit, for Rotterdam—Marth a . C owman , for Constantinople—Susan, Nuttall, for St Vincent—Wa reham, Game. for Cadiz—Unity, M u i r, f or Riga—Johanna, Twydman, for Hambro —Six Gebroeders, Okkes, for Elsineur and Narva—Traveller, M'Clear. for St Thomas and St Domingo--Agnes Wood, Metcalf, for Riga— Carron, Potter, for Montreal—Diligente, Bertover, for Trieste—CeTes. Nonni, for Rotterdam—Maria, Carr, for Newfoundland—John Guise. M'Fie, for St Petersburgh—Comet, Pattisson, for Elsineur and Revel —Victoria, Williamson, for Barbados—Lesley Alexander, Morris, 1m Narva—Robert James, Crow, for Liebau—Ann Louisa, Lord, for Gi braltar—Andromeda, Latimer, for Barbados—Mary Barry, Goss. lot Ilayti—Nelson Wood, Robinson, for Batavia—Daedalus, Widdicombe. for Africa—Parker, Risien, for Demerara—Thomas and William. Ried for Newfoundland—Red Rover, Watkins, for Messina and Palermo-. Fergus, Cornforth, for the Gulf of Mexico—Laura, Day, forDemerara Salathiel, Bell, from Ifavanna, at Plymouth, for Ifamburgh. • The Ellen Clan-, Ellis; and the Neptune, Johns, hence at Genoa. Brazilian, Galloway, sailed from Falmouth for Trieste, 28th April. The Glide, from Mobile, off Titskar, for the Clyde. Italy, from Apalachicol a , o ff B ar d sey, for this port. The Royal William, Rogers, for Constantinople, was run foul laht night by one of the Seacombe steamers, and lost head, cutwater, Sze. DARTMOUTH, April 30.—The Betsey Hall, Cocker, from Exeter to Liverpool, struck on a sunken rock yesterday to the eastward of this harbour, sustained considerable damage in her bottom, and makes much water—must discharge to repair. LIVERPOOL TIDE TABLE, Fesiirals, 4c. MAY. Tuesday 3 Wednesday 4 Thursday 5 Friday, Saturaay 7 SUNDAY 8 Monday IL 31. 0 6 0 47 1 3•d 2 22 3 18 4 29 5 55 ; 0 23 1 9 1 56 2 49 3 51 5 11 6 40 F. I, 1 20 5 Jupiter rises 711 38m morn 19 6 !Jupiter sets Oh 30ra morn 18 0 ' Length of day 14h 46m 16 1 I Length of night 9h 10m 14 0 Saturn in conj. with 51000 12 8 sth Sunday after Easter 12 5 I Easter Term Ends itlarketz. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. MAI 2. Oa Saturday there was an improved demand, and about 3,000 bale. sold ; the market closing at id per tb advance. To-day also the lo* quiry has increased, and upwards of 5,000 bales are sold at an advanClP of id per lb upon the quotations of Friday. 1,000 balsa American a taken on speculation. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. M AY 2. -- The supplies have been moderate of all descriptions of grain for the. week. There h as b een a fa i r business done in Wheat to the trade sa d speculators at Id to 2d per 70Ibs advance, which was fully maintained on Saturday in Manchester. The scarcity of Oats has caused a further advance of ld per 45110. but there are not many wanted. There has been a free sale for prime fresh Flour at the price of Tuesday ; and Oatmeal has brought an advance of is per 431158. Grinding Barley very scarce, and worth 4s 44 per COMs. ...., PRICES OF SHARES, LIVERPOOL, MAY 2, 1836- .-- . . . ... £ Liverpool Coal Gas Per She*. .. - Liverpool New Gas an d Coke Company, .... £lOO ...... .. 352 0 0 160 0 0 New Shares, prem iurn £SO Liverpool and Harrington Water Works Bootle ditto 310 0 0 Exchange Buildings ................. Liverpool and Manchester Railway, AlOO paid 290 0 0 Ditto Old Quarters 23 72 0 - 0 Ditto New Quarters 22 --- 71 10 0 Bolton and Leigh ditto Ditto 25 --ft- 22 10 0 Warrington and Newton ditto - 168 A 0 Kenyon and Leigh ditto lOO .-- 110 0 0 Wigan Branch ditto Preston and Wigan North Union Line ditto 5O 70 10 0 St. Helens and Runcorn Gap ditto .... 100 -- 40 10 0 Leicester and Swannington ditto . oo 60 0 0 Manchester. Bolton, and Bury Railway and Canal 48 83 10 0 Leeds and Selby Railway Grand Junction ditto 50 130 6 *- London and Birmingham ditto 6O 140 0 ° Birmingham and Gloucester ditto 3 11 10 0 Manchester and Leeds ditto 3 25 0 0 North Midland ditto .. • ... - 15 5 0 Midland ditto 5 11 5 0 Edinburgh and Glasgow ditto 2 ---.. 610 0 Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven .. 1 610 ° London and Gravesend ditto 1 --- 1 0 0 Bank of Liverpool 10 -- 27 0 o Bank of Manchester 25 ~....... 35 0 0 Manchester and Liverpool District Rank......., 15 2 3 0 0 Commercial Bank of Liverpool.... lO 23 10 0 Liverpool Marine Assurance Company 25 16 0 ° Oldham Gas Light and Waterworks lO 21 10 0 Manchester Fire and Life Assurance Co lO 10 5 0 Ocean Assurance Company Northern and Central Bank of England lO 16 15 g Union Bank of Liverpool Commercial Bank of England 3 _ 712 0 Birkenhead Ferry 0 0 0 0 Tradesmens' Bank Z 3 105— 4 0 United Trades' Bank As 10s— 4 0 0 RICHARD DAWSON. Share Broker. NORTHERN HOSPITAL MONTHLY REPORT. APRIL, 1836. PATIENTS ADMITTED. Accidents without recommen dation Medical and Surgical eases with recommendation Remaining in the I.lc PATIENTS DISCHARGED. Cured l7 Relieved S.: made Out-patient* 1a 1 Irregular ...... Died lr ospital 33 House Visitors, Charles Warner, Esq., and R. B. Anderson. El* Chaplain, Rev. W. Stafford.—Treasurer, George J. Wainwright. * House Surgeon--Mr. Benjamin Blower. LONDON GAZETTE.-FRtDAY, APRIL 29. WHITEHALL, APRIL 29. The King has been pl..med to constitute and appoint the Right Roo- - Robert Montgomery Lord Belhaven to be his Majesty's High Com— missioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. DECLARATION OP INSOLVENCY. J. Whiteford, Woodford, Essex. dyer. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. J. Hadley, Birmingham, button-manufacturer, from April 19, May 10. BANKRUPTCfES SUPERSEDED. J. Hill, South Milford, Yorkshire, teazle dealer. G. Acklam, Cheltenham, coaehbuilder. BANKRUPTS. J. Lytligoe, Liverpool, cooper, to surrender May 13, and June 10. 81 one, at the Cl a r en d on R ooms, Li verpoo l . Attorneys, Mr. J. C' Thompson, Tithebarn-street, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Cuvelje and Vl' field, Southampton-buildings, London. W. Porter, East-lane, Walworth, London, grocer. G. W. Finch. Devonshire-place, Newington, Surrey. coach-Prc . prietor. G. Walker, and W. 11. Walker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. I r° l3 " -- founders. W. Durant, Hartley, Kent, dealer and chapman. R. loons, jun. Carnarvon, draper. R. Todd, Bath, livery stable-keeper. G. Perkins, Northowram, Yorkshire, silk spinner. D. D. Orlidge. Bristol, wine merchant. J. Bush and N. G. Prideaux, Bristol, scriveners. DIVIDENDS. May 20, W. Knight, Gravesend, victualler --Nray.2o, J. P. flicks C. E. Hicks, Easington. Gloucestershire, clothiers—May 2 1 , Brookes, New-street-square, Fetter-l ane , l amp numnfact urer—qlr 21, E. Erickson and A. 13. Call e nd er , Mi nc i ng -lane, London, cfr, ~. factors—May 23, J. Coiling, jun. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, hatter- 50 " 31, J. Smith, Rugby, Warwickshire, Corn dealer— May 23, E. Green-' wood, Dover, brewer—May 21, J. Th ompson, New York, Owed States, merchant. ___ CERTIFICATES.—A PRIL 20. W. Bloxham, Warnford- cour t, Th rogmorton-street, London, stock' broker—G. Bayley, B r i s t o l , s ilk mercer—M. E. Burnord. Bideford' Devonshire, merchant—H. Budd, Ltd-lane, tolmeeonist—A. M. Bathwick, Sornersetshire, lo , l4ing-house keeper—G. S a " e "'' Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, scrivener. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, emnputed ft: 1, 61 6 the returns made in th e wee k end i ng the 26th day of April. is 394 8d per ewt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or P a J able thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. LIVERPOOL: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY MORNING' BY RICHARD PATTISSON, At N 0.4, NORTH CRESCENT, CASTLE-STREET. Orders and Advertisements are received by Messrs. N.earton 81 21 Co., Warwick-squar e ; w a jbrocn' t ; Barker Fleet-street; Deacon, „ Reynell, Chancery-lane; Lawson' & Barker, B• 1 • 1 e • Jcg le P ire iin- an w Thomas, 1, C 1 •11• d I; 121 " orn , un en amnion( , bard•s. • treet ; Mitchell, 8, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street ; Claar and Lewis, 1, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street, London ; at an e raway's; at the London Commercial Coffee-house, Mincing Thae. nt the Jer usa l em C offee-house, Cornhill ; Chapter Coffee -ho Pater-noster-row; and North and South American Coffee -h Threadneedle -street, London; by Messrs. Johnston and Co. , Du „d lin; M r . M•l'hun, Glasgow; Mr. Wheeler, Exchange-street, 5' Mr. Lewis, Mark e t- s t ree t, Manchester; Mr. Malley, kseller, Warrington ; Mr. Clarke, l'ilot-ofuee, Preston ; and Mr. C. r -33, Union•street, Biswinuham. r Vtluctlien 'ctiperior : • Upply to - Burthen :trade, pr or passz4 -Met-char, 11 .e tubs /ler S*6:o; meet wit aPply t,, , —For ft -. 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