The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-23 00:00:00

Mr. Joseph Sturge has sailed in the British Queen, for the United States, with a view to the advancement of the anti-alavery cause there. The money orders granted within the last three months by the Liverpool Post-office were upwards of eleven thou sand, and those by the Post-office at Manchester, within the same time, about nine thousand ! DAVISON u. M`GREGOR.—A new trial was moved for in this case, by Mr. Dundas, on Wednesday. The particulars of the case will be remembered, as the trial took place at the last Liverpool assizes. A verdict passed for the plaintiff, and the court now granted a rule nisi for a new trial. Costmononu NAPIER.—On Monday last the Mayor of Manchester and a deputation waited upon Sir Charles Na pier, to invite him to a public dinner in that town, and he, in the most cordial terms, accepted the invitation ; and the din ner accordingly took place on Wednesday evening last. A congratulary•address was presented the same afte the Mayor and Corporation to the gallant commodore. NORTH WALES ECCLESIASTICAL REVENUES.—J. R• Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P., has addressed a letter to the North Wales Chronicle, in which he states that, in reply to a question from himself, Lord John Russell answered that no measures would be brought forward on the subject of the Welsh' church till after the appointment and report of a commission to investigate the matter. That, however, it was not .in contemplation to consider whether or not so much of the law as provides for the union of the North Wales dioceses should be repealed. Mr. Gore, therefore, fears that little advantage to North Wales can be expected to emanate from this new commission. ternoon by DocE COMMITTEE.- -1 -Tttllensnal weekly meeting yes terday, the following members were present :—Messrs. Benn, Horsfall, Barclay, T. Holt, Holmes, Middleton, Ai kin, Booth, Mellor, Smith Bulley, Quayle, G. Holt, Chap man, Moon, Ripley, Evans, and Tobin. Plans and estimates for the houses of some of the dock-masters were produced and approved of, the details to he left to the harbour msters' committee. The south end of the shed on the west side of the Clarence Dock, and the extreme end of the shed on the east quay of the Prince's Dock, were ordered to be boarded up. The sub-committee reported that they could not recom mend tde adoption of the prayer of the petition of the flat men of the river Weaver to be exempted from keeping the tide watches in the docks.. A letter was read from Mr. J. B. Yates, president of the Southern and Toxteth Hospital, requesting the committee to subscribe to thatinstitution. An answer was directed to be sent to the effect that, the institu tion not being built, the request was premature. STEEL v. MONDEL.—Mr. Dundas moved for a new trial in this case, on the ground that a witness had been impro perly rejected by Mr. Baron Rolfe, at Liverpool. This was an action to recover the balance of a contract price for the building of a ship, and also for sundry extras supplied during the progress of the work. The defendant was a part owner of the vessel, and proposed to call as a witness a gentleman who had become a part owner also after the original contract had been made with the defendant and others by the plain tiff, and before the extras had been supplied. The evidence of this gentleman was rejected, and this motion was now made to renew that opinion, his lordship having refused to endorse his name on the record. The court, after much dis cussion, agreed with the course adopted at the trial, and re fused to grant any rule. TUE PRESIDENT STEAM-SIIIP.—We have nothing de cisive to communicate respecting this vessel. A corre spondent of th e London Tin ' zes suggests that if, from her disabled state, and the prevalence of strong westerly winds, she f a il e d i n reaching Bermu d a, t h e nex t alterna tive would b e f or her to get as spee dil y as possible within the range of the trade wind, and make for English Harbour, in the island of Antigua, where there is a dockyard and many facilities for refitting. The Glasgow Chronicle states, that it was remarked by several nautical gentlemen who saw the British Queen sail from Black wall last voyage, that her paddle floats had been altered, and resembled the appearance of bird's fee!, and churned the water without propelling the vessel.. Perhaps this may account for the British Queen having lost all her floats on one side, previ ous to putting into Halifax ; and as it is alleged that the Pre sident's floats were likewise altered from what they were be fore she left Liverpool this voyage, we are fain to hope that no greater disaster than the loss of her floats may be the cause of her not yet being accounted for. The date of the Leeward Islands packet next due at the Postoffice was the the 23d March, from Jamaica, so that her dates from Ber muda will be a few days later. This packet has now been out 30 days, and therefore her arrival may be daily antici pated, and we fervently hope may be the means of relieving the anxiety which exists in regard to the President. BEGGING PETITION IMPOSTORS EXTRAORDINARY. — On Saturday week, two women called at the office of Mr. De Lara, solicitor, Norfolk-street, Manchester, and presented a begging petition, stating that the husband of the petitioner, was the captain of a vessel, and perished by shipwreck, and that she was in great distress. Suspecting them to be im postors, lie sent for a policeman, and gave both the women into custody. On searching the house where the prisoners lived, he (the policeman) found upwards of sixty begging pe titions, some on parchment and some on paper, nearly all written in the same strain, and, excepting the name, nearly alike, the purport of them being the same in effect as that presented to Mr. De Lara. Many of the petitions were stamped with what purported to be corporation seals ; and most of them bore pretended signatures of various parties, a great many being in Cork and Limerick, far sums varying from ten shillings to £2. He also found about thirty copies, in lead and composition, of the seals of different corporations, the plan of obtaining which has evidently been by getting a button belonging to some officer of the corporation, and tak ing the impression from it, as several buttons were also found. The bag also contained upwards of a hundred letters, in French and English, the whole of which are certificates of character; and many of them state, that the bearer is an Italian refugee, who had been expatriated in consequence of the part he took in the cause of liberty in 1831. There was also found a large sael purporting to be the seal of the Bri tish consul at Dantzic. A great number of letters were also found from parties who had been duped, stating, that they enclosed sums, the amount of which varied from one to two or three pounds. The prisoners were committed for three months. MODEL OF DUBLIN. — This model is decidedly the most beautiful, in point of accuracy and workmanship, we have ever seen. Even to those who know nothing of the City of Dub lin, this model must be interesting, as by name many of the streets are doubtless familiar. Nothing can be more perfect or more picturesque than the view taken from the mouth of the river, looking up the Liffey studded with shipping of all sorts and sizes. The public buildings are all most beau tifully and curiously constructed. The Custom-house, for instance, is almost worth seeing of itself. We can assure our readers they will be most gratified by paying the Model "Dublin a visit. By gaslight the effect of the view is more ex traordinary, we think, than by daylight. Many persons ° ll first beholding this ingenious and elaborate piece of work manship, are astonished at its great extent; but their won der is rather increased than abated, on discovering the extreme correctness and minute accuracy with which each each sepa rate portion is finished. To a stranger about to visit Dublin, it serves as an admirable and useful preliminary instructor, and to one who is well acquainted with that beautiful and in teresting city, it affords a lively memorial replete with nu merous and varied associations. Of the correctness of the model in every part, the artist has been furnished with the most gratifying testimonials. We can ourselves say from a pretty good knowledge of Dublin, and a careful examination of this copy i n miniature, that it is quite an astonishing work. We earnestly recommend a visit to all who have not yet seen it, and venture to promise them an agreeable treat in the in spection. :NIEL ANCHOLY TREATMENT OF A SAlLOR.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a serious charge was preferred against George Brinslay, captain of the brig Satisfaction, for ill treating a sailor during a voyage to Bonny river. The medi cal officer on board the brig deposed to many cruelties in flicted upon the sailor, who was a young man of the name of Scroder, and about nineteen years of age. The captain one day ordered him to be beaten and tied with a rope, and con fined by handcuffs. In about a fortnight afterwards the surgeon saw him, and found his legs swollen, and that he was afflicted with dropsy, from which affection he died in about three weeks, but the surgeon could not say whe ther it was brought on by the injuries he received. — The cook on board the brig deposed to greater cruelties inflicted on Scroder. He stated that whilst the vessel was in the Bonny river, Scroder was ordered by the second mate to take in some rope, and on his refusing to'do so in conse quence of the great danger attached to the request, the mate knocked him down and jumped upon him repeatedly, and when the captain came on board, Scroder was put in irons and confined near the cabin door all night. The captain having been informed that Scroder had thrown a dog over board, ordered him to be fastened to the main rigging, when he received three dozen lashes, and remained in that position all night, without any thing on but his trowsers. When he was taken down his back was much bruised, he was then put in irons with a chain round his neck, and a board with nails driven into it was placed so to prevent him sitting down. He re mained fastened to a gun two days and one night, when his legs began to swell, and appeared as red as blood. The dog, for the loss of which this punishment was incurred, was held in high esteem by the natives, and was considered by them as a god. Several other witnesses spoke to the extreme punishment inflicted upon the deceased, and Mr. Rushton ordered the captain to find bail, himself in £2OO, and two sureties in £lOO each, to appear and answer the charge this day, (Friday,) at twelve o'clock. THE MERSEY ON WEDNESDAY.—SERIOUS ACCIDENT.— On Wednesday, at noon, (shortly after high water,) the river presented one of the most interesting marine spectacles ever witnessed in this or any other port. The day was fine, with a fresh breeze from the N.E., favourable for vessels going down the channel coastwise (southward), or seaward, and a vast number of craft of all descriptions consequently pushed out from the several docks into the stream, until the bosom of old Mersey bore a fleet which alone would have done honour to any maritime state in Europe. Some of the vessels, from the northern docks, could clear the Rock without making a tack. Others, from points further to the south, were under the necessity of making what sailors call (in tacking) " a short leg, and a long ;" and in a short time the proximity of numerous vessels gave indication of probable collision. The tide, soon after high water, ran down with great force, and tended to increase the difficulties of the na vigation, as some vessels taken by it " missed stays," and others were drifted along with more velocity than was ex pected. Good seamanship, however, averted any serious ac cident in this respect. One vessel, however, met with a misfortune —the Lily, an hermaphrodite schooner of Har rington. She was nearly run into by a sloop, near the Vic toria Dock gates, and in avoiding her, did not sufficiently answer her helm, and came against the sea-wall at the en trance. She carried away her figure-head and her bulwarks forward, b u t nevertheless proceeded to s ea . Sh or tl y after wards (about a quarter past twelve) those on the piers in that quarter observed a man fall into the river from one of the yards of a brig making her way down, and then about midway between the Lancashire and Cheshire shores. There was evidently immediate alarm on board the vessel, which was hove in the wind, and after some exertion and delay a boat was lowered from her. Meantime the head of the poor fellow was seen rising occasionally above the waves, as he was borne rapidly nor thward e ssp b a yt e le y a s ti tr n e e am sh , ip an lo d w e e v r ir d le o t , y in great peril of his life ; he sand being frequently lost sight of, apprehensions were almost immediately entertained by those on shoe who witnessed the en-painted gig -boat accident that he would go down. toria‘ Dock entrance under sail, approached the with some passengers on board. _ Vic oon as she came within one of our reporters, who h4a[s-ipsene,d to be on the quay, and other gentlemen, shouted to the boatmen that a man was overboard from the brig outside, andrequested them to stand out to save him, and obtain the prize. Some of the passen gers, it appeared, were either timorous on hearing the inti mation, or were determined to land at theira_ndatbdev were accordingly transferred to a sm all vesselying alongside the quay. The boatmen then, to thei r credit, made all sail towards the spot to which it was supposed the drowning man would then have drifted ; but probably too late to sent saved him had they reached it. The alarm was raptiodly\N',‘Sie.ell,t, along to the Clarence Dock quay, nearly opposite icrl.gl,- his head was now and then seen emerging • and pother_l boat, then coming from the outward-bound ship the Eleabnioler Lancaster, on being made aware of the accident from the shore, instantly put about, and after considerable exertion and tact (the tide running strong) succeeded in picking up the man—drawing him out, in fact, by the hair of the head, while he was sinking. The boat was manned by Michael M'lnlav who belongs to her, and several riggers. She is owned by Robert Harrison. With great and humane dis cretion these men pulled and sailed to the nearest pier they could make—that near the northern fort—with the poor fellow they had rescued, and who was quite insensible and apparently lifeless. They carried him to the receiving-house in Regent-street, when he was put to bed. A surgeon was sent for, and we hope, by judicious treatment, he would be rescued from the death he was in such imminent risk of being a prey to. ADDRESS OF THE LIVERPOOL SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION TO COMMODORE SIR CHAS. NAPIER. A numerous deputation from this excellent institution waited upon Commodore Napier on Tuesday morning, at the Adelphi Hotel, with an address of congratulation and respect. Amongst the gentlemen present we noticed Wm. Rowett, Esq., chairman of the committee, W. Potter, Esq., J. B. Yates, Esq., J. Stitt, Esq., C. S. Middleton, Esq., &c., &c., together with a numerous body of masters of ves sels now in port. Sir Josnu& WALMSLEY, president of the institution, in presenting the address, paid some personal compliments to the gallant Commodore, in elegant and appropriate terms. He commented also most energetically upon the good effects which the termination of recent events in the East (to which Sir Charles had mainly contributed) must produce upon the civilised world, by extending protection to its mainspring, commerce ; 'and wound up an eloquent speech by reading the following address : " We, the members of the Liverpool Shipmasters' Asso ciation, hail with peculiar satisfaction the opportunity which now presents itself of uniting with the municipal authorities and inhabitants of Liverpool in welcoming, with sincere congratulations, the safe arrival on the shores of Great Bri tain of the Conqueror of Acre. " In thus presenting our grateful acknowledgments, we cannot refrain from expressing the pleasure we derive from the contemplation of this glorious triumph, which has not only shed additional lustre on the naval records of our coun try, but we also anticipate the effects of this signal victory in stimulating the generous emulation of every brave spirit who aspires to the glory of efficiently serving his country. " By this great achievement the accomplishment of peace has also been effected, the conflicting interests of opposing powers have been conciliated, and, by removing the impedi ments which obstructed our intercourse with foreign ports, universal security and protection to commerce has been es tablished, by which the apprehensions which have so long disquieted the merchant and trader have been completely removed. _ . " In conclusion, we again beg leave to assure you of the sincerity of our gratitude for the distinguished services which you have rendered, not only to Great Britain, but to the whole civilised world ; and, while appreciating the benefits arising from the triumphs which, under the blessing of Di vine Providence, have follfwed your exertions, we trust that you will long be spared an ornament to that profession of which you have become so distinguished a member. " Signed, on behalf of the association, " WILLIAM ROWETT, • " Chairman of the Committee. " Liverpool, April 20, 1841. " To Commodore Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8." Commodore NAPIER, in reply, first thanked the members of the Association for the honour they had done him on his reaching the shores of England, and remarked that he should ever bear in memory the gratification of the present moment. Sir Charles then introduced the subject of manning the navy by impressment, conceiving that he could not well find a more favourable and useful opportunity of bringing forward a question which had occupied a great portion of his thoughts. He said he was given to understand by the Admiralty, on the commencement of the late war in the Mediterranean, that the fleet would be found well and sufficiently manned, but such, experience showed him, was not the case; and so long as the repugnance amongst merchant sailors against her Ma jesty's service existed, so long would the evil of ineffective crews in the navy continue ; for, the system of impressment was unjust and tyrannical in its principles and operation, and therefore could never produce good sailors. The remedy for this defect, Sir Charles considered to rest entirely with the Merchant Serviceand the Admiralty, for he had often spoken upon the subject to members of parliament, who had, one and all, declined to take up such a formidable question as that of changing the system of manning the navy. In the Commodore's opinion, the only way to produce able and effi cient men for the navy, available at a short notice, would be by laying down some plan which should cause sailors enter ing the Merchant Service, to serve some time in the navy. As, for instance, he would propose that apprentices bound for seven years should serve the four first years in the Mer chant Service, and the remaining three in that of her Ma jesty ; with the option, at the end of apprenticeship, of re turning to a merchant ship, or of remaining in the navy. This system, he thought, would provide, on any pressing emergency, a vast number of men accustomed to the routine of a ship of war, and, therefore, far more efficient than raw hands pressed into the service against their will; for, by offering a good bounty to sailors in the Merchant Service, who had previously passed some time in the navy. and who had been disabused, most probably, of the imaginary dis agreeables which were generally supposed to exist in it, there would be, comparatively, no difficultyln gathering to gether a body of sailors, willing and competent to man a British fleet as it ought to be manned. Sir Charles next commented with great clearness and force upon the eastern question, which, he regretted to say, he considered far from settled, the Porte having attempted to impose conditions upon Mehemet Ali, which it was morally impossible for him to accede to ; and it remained for such gentlemen as he was addressing, who were interested so much in the extension of peace, to support the Pacha, and use their influence to obtain a just and practicable settlement of the question. The gallant Commodore concluded his admirable speech by again thanking the deputation for the honour they had done him. We here expected that the business of the visit to Sir Charles would have in due course of time terminated, but, the opportunity of obtaining the opinion of the Nelson of the day upon maritime affairs, appeared to one or two gentlemen to,i precious to be lost, and J. B. Yates, Esq. re-opened the subject of impressment, upon which he had collected a great deal of documentary evidence, and put some questions to Sir Charles as to his opinion upon several points, to all of which the experienced commodore returned polite and ex plicit answers. Mr. POTTER begged to know whether Sir Charles did not think the Admiralty would do wisely to increase the pay of sailors ? _ . The COMMODORE replied, most certainly, it would be a wise step, and one which he should use his influence to ac complish ; the pay being at present very inadequate. A conversation then took place between Sir Charles Napier and Sir Joshua Walmsley, relative to the introduction into Liverpool of a Sailors' Home, which Sir Charles considered would be very beneficial in reforming the habits. of Poor Jack, and freeing him from the injurious influence of crimps and land-sharks. Sir Joshua appeared to treasure up in his mind the opinions of the experienced officer, and no doubt will, sooner or later, benevolently exercise his in fluence in Liverpool, in conjunction with his brother mem bers of the Shipmasters' Association, to put into operation so desirable an institution. Sir Joshua Walmsley having fulfilled his office as speaker of the deputation, concluded this interesting meeting by begging Sir Charles to accept his personal thanks for the truly enlightened opinions which bad fallen from his lips the previous evening and on the present occasion : sentiments which did honour both to the heart and head of Commodore Napier, and which could not be too widely spread in furtherance of the great cause of human civilization and happiness ! Each gentleman then had the honour of a shake of the gallant veteran's hand, and left him impressed, we should think, with as high an opinion of his mental abilities as they were before of his indomitable courage and skill in arms. KIRKDALE QUARTER SESSIONS These sessions commenced yesterday, in the Court-house, Kirkdale, before the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, (chairman,) Adam Hodgson, Esq., Charles Birch, Esq., Peter Bourne, Esq., John Formby, Esq., T. Rawson, Esq., T. Rodick, Esq., W. Hall, Esq., Edwards, Esq., Holbrook Gas kell, Esq., &c., &c. The following gentlemen were sworn on the grand jury : John Leigh, Esq., of Aughton, foreman ; Richard Gore Balshaw, of Altcar, gentleman ; Robert Allen, of Aughton, innkeeper ; James Billing, of Ashton-in-Mackerfield, hinge-maker ; Wright Cartwright, of A s hton-in-Mackerfield, brewer ; George Knowles, of Asliton-in-Mackerfield, nail-maker ; Leathom, of A s hton-in-Mackerfield, grocer ; John Unsworth, of Ashton-in-Mackerfield. grocer ; John Sumner, of Ashton-in-Macker-field, hinge-maker ; William Croston, of Aughton, innkeeper ; Richard Parr, of Aughton, yeoman; George Gurden, of Kirkdale, brewer ; John Harrison, of Aughton, farmer ; James Budge Ashton, of Bootle, shipwright ; Donald Nicholson, of Bootle, hatter; Abraham Wren, of Bootle, tea-dealer ; William Atherton, of Eccleston, brewer ; Andrew Burton, of Eccleston, watchmaker ; John Nixon, of North Meols, yeoman ; John Spencer, of North Meols, yeoman ; The ChAIRMAN then proceeded to deliver the charge to the grand jury. He was sorry to find that they had a good deal of business before them. There was a long list of felo nies which they would have to investigate ; but, in looking over the calendar he did not see any peculiar cases. They were generally the same kind of offences which had always come before them at county sessions ; and as several of/hem had been on grand juries before, they would have no difficulty in discharging their duties. If they had, however, the court would be glad to render them any assistance. Some bills would be immediately placed before them, and they would return into court as soon as possible. The chairman then dismissed the grand jury to their labours. The trials commenced shortly after eleven o'clock, but none of any public interest came on during the day. Whilst the magistrates were in their private room, a roll of three-sixteenths of a penny in the pound of the county rate was ordered for the repairs of the bridges within the hundred of West Derby. The list of the petty jury was then called over, and some excuses were allowed on the ground of excess of age and non residence. On the name of " John Marsden, of Abram, farmer," being called, a juryman addressing the court said " He's not coming, sir." The CIIAIRMAN.—Why ? The Juryman.—He says he's a doctor, sir. The CHAIRMAN.—When was he served? Precept Server.—l served him personally upon the 9th instant. Juryman.—He says he's a doctor. The CH AI RMAN.—WeII, if he gets fees for others he shall pay a fee to the court, then. l'recept Server.—He said he was a physician. (Laughter.) The CHAIRMAN.—Did he shew you his diploma? Precept Server.—No, sir ; he was working in a field. (Laughter.) The CHAIRMAN. — Let him be fined William Knowles, jun., of Bootle, tailor, was fined £5 for non-attendance. RESTORATION OF THE JEWS.—On Wednesday evening a very interesting service took place at the Episcopal Jews' Chapel, Bethnal-green, London, previous to the departure of the Rev. J. Nicolayson and others to Jerusalem, to build an Episcopal Protestant church on Mount Sion. Sir Thos. Baring, Bart., the president of the Society for the Promo tion of Christianity amongst the Jews, was present, as well as several other gentlemen of distinction, the members of the committees, the missionaries, &c., and a very numerous congregation. The prayers were read by the Rev. J. B. Cartwright, A.M., and the sermon preached by the Rev. A. M`Caul, the chaplain to the society. EXTREME OLD AGE.—The register of burials at Denmark hill. Camberwell, contains the following entries :—" May sth, 1658, Rose, wife of William Hathaway, buried, aged 103, who bore a son at the age of 63. Her husband, who was about th e same age, survived her three years , being buried Octobe r 3, 1661, aged 105. June 2, 1687, Robert Hem and Elizabeth Bozwell, King and Queen of the Gipsies. No vember 22, 1775, Elizabeth Jones, aged 125 ." A few months before the death of th e l a tt e r an account of her was pub lished, in which it was stated that she was then in the per fect possession o f h er f acu l t i es, an d that she remembered being at service when Charles 11. was crowned. " GOING of Lord Carnarvon's game k eepers, at hi s lordship's seat, was OFF."—A few days since, as Elisha Smith , one proceeding through th e preserves, he di scovere d a fine phea santin a snare, and immediately afterwards saw a poacher close to the spot, attempti ng to make hi s escape . He started o ff in pursuit of the worthy, but in passing through a hedge, his gun went off, fortunately, without doing him any injury. He left his gun in the copse, in order that he might he imin cumbered during the pursuit. The poacher, who had gained time by the delay, was no more seen b y t h e k eeper , who re turned for his gun. That, however, had " gone off " a se cond time, and no doubt in company with the poacher (who had been seen by a man to double back), and no " report " of either gun, poacher, or pheasant, has since been beard. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT (From our London Correspondent.) The House of Commons met last night for the first time after the Easter recess. There was, however, only a small attendance of members, to listen to one of the peiiodical displays of a very small member—Mr. William Ewart—who is occasionally in the habit of taking under his protection the affairs of the metropolitan public, and who, on this occasion, thought proper to busy himself about the opening of certain newly planted portions of the Regent's Park, in order to en able the said public to furnish themselves with walking sticks therefrom at the national cost. After the usual exchange of courtesies between the said small member and the ministry, the motion was duly withdrawn, and William Ewart, Esq., sat down, congratulating himself with the thought that he had done something to preserve his name from oblivion. Your readers will perhaps remember that on Monday, the Ist March, Lord John Russell, with the tone and manner of a detected petty larcener, intimated to the house his inten tion of postponing the committal of Lord Morpeth's Irish registration bill until Friday, the 23d April—a postponement of just seven weeks and four days—in order to enable him to lay before the house " precise and positive information" as to the principle of the bill which he had a few days previously induced the house to affirm by a majority of five, after a four nights' debate. It was well predicted then by Lord Stanley and other conservative members, that the postponement in question was expressly intended to defeat his lordship's com peting measure, by " postponing it until a period when lapse of time alone would be fatal to its success.", The prediction of the noble lord certainly appears to be in a fair way towards fulfilment. It was announced last night in the house by Mr. E. J. Stanley—the treasury whipper-in—that the committal of Lord Morpeth's bill would not take place until Monday, the 26th (Lord Stanley's second reading being fixed for the 28th) ; and yet not a syllable of the information, which the house was said to stand so urgently in need of, has as yet been laid upon its table ! It is obvious enough that government are at their wits' end upon this question ; and yet it is not easy to say what will be the next shuffle of the cards. The £5 qualification is not to be altered—if we may believe Mr. E. J. Stanley—at least with the previous concurrence of ministers. Will they persevere with the bill if tta clause is rejected by a conser vative majority ? The chapter of accidents may perhaps de termine the question ; and that chapter never determined a more doubtful one. We may well felicitate ourselves upon the circumstance that Lord Stanley, with his bona fide mea sure, hangs upon the rear of the tricky faction, and will force them either to fight or lay down their arms. We have had a tolerably hearty laugh to-day over the say ings and doings which have distinguished the welcome given by the people of Liverpool to the great warrior and " nego ciator,"—as the mayor calls him—Sir Charles Napier. The ministerial people think that the laudation bestowed upon the gallant admiral's talents for "negociation" was a rather unkind cut, considering how those talents have been appre ciated by her Majesty's ministers at home, and how much they have been marred by the interference of her Majesty's ambassador at the Porte. It is not generally believed that Sir Charles has materially advanced his chances of promo tion by the expos 6 which he has volunteered ; and I should not wonder much to see the reward of his gallantry as sedu lously withheld from him, by the incapables of Downing street, as it has been well and faithfully earned. The Red Tape Fraternity cannot endure that a man whose proper weapon is a boarding-pike, and whose vocation is spiking guns and destroying forts, should presume to trespass upon the mysteries of protocolling and negociation. The Eastern dispute would have supported Lord Palmerston upon his hobby-horse for a year or two, and his lordship has no fancy for Sir Charles's practice of cutting the Gordian knot of diplomacy. LITERARY NOTICES. A Treatise on Painful Affections of the Nerves. By Mr. Cronin, Surgeon. Rockliff, Liverpool Mr. Cronin, who has just published a clever work upon Deafness, has again given the world the benefit of his expe rience in the pathphlet now befoi:e us. To those afflicted with nervous complaints, it will prove most valuable. The mode of treatment in many cases, is given in so clear and concise a manner that the purchasers of the work may pre scribe for themselves. Mr. Cronin commences by describ ing the formation of the human frame as relating to organs and nerves, he then touches upon the circulating system, the sbsorbent system, and the nervous system. He then de scribes the painful affections of the nerves and the tic dolour ous—that most horrible and distressing malady, many cases of which be details, with the modes of cure effected by him. He then describes the nervous pain of the neck, with cases and cures also. Mr. Cronin then draws attention to the nervous affections of the heart and their treatment ; and lastly, the nervous irritations of the sciatic nerve. In a very small compass the author has said a great deal, and conveys to his readers much information, clearly convincing us that the treatment of the cases has been judicious and efficacious. We recommend this pamphlet to notice. THE FINE ARTS }ORNUWG'S DEATH OF CALVIN Our readers may remember that some time ago we bad the pleasure of drawing their attention to a very fine engraving which had been just published, taken from a picture by Mr. Hornung,—representing the Death of Calvin. The original painting is now in Liverpool, and may be inspected, free of charge, at Mr. Lacev's,—and we can confidently recommend a visit to it. The point of time is the interview between Calvin and the syndics and members of the Senate of Geneva who waited upon the great reformer to take leave of him. Supported by pillows, and propped up in bed by his friend Beza, Calvin is perceived to the right of the picture, his face attenuated by disease, and his features shrunken and emaci ated by suffering—his eye still bright and glowing with in telligence. Seated by the bed-side—borne down by years and infirmity—is the venerable Farel, who had come from Newchatel to see his dying friend, At the right hand of the reformer is Viret—his eyes uplifted to heaven. The syndics and members are seated or standing near the bed, apparently listening most attentively to the reformer's last words. The Bible, arm chair, and table cover, as well as the portrait of John Knox hanging against the wall—all painted from the originals—which were in Calvin's possession, are now in the library at Geneva. This picture is very well worthy of comparison with the works of any of the old masters, who painted in the style. The utmost attention has been paid to objects the most minute. The heads of the figures are boldly and admirably painted, displaying the vigour and fidelity of life itself. Manhood and old age are depicted with a nervous pencil, and we can trace in each figure the character and disposition of the man represented. What a noble study is the figure of Farel ! What a head ! and how graceful is his attitude ! Observe the second figure —what a face! How it beams with intellect! The Syndics —what grave and venerable old men ! Then examine their dresses—with what a finish, and how ingeniously, are the furs worked up ! Examine the table-cover, and the high backed chair : they all stand out from the canvas. We have been greatly pleased with this work of art: it is elaborately and effectively finished : it is without mannerism and stiff ness. The principal figure is wonderfully painted. In fact, look at the painting with the most severe eye, and it may be pronounced without a blemish. It is—and we say it advi sedly—the most surprising work of the kind of the present day ; and the gentleman—a true friend of the arts we will be bound—into whose possession it has fallen, may be proud of his property. There are few paintings of the Flemish school, to which this may be said to class, that can exceed it in point of conception, execution, or finish. It is in truth a most masterly work. The artist, Mr. Hornung, is a resi dent of Geneva, and has produced other paintings on the same subject, all of which have attracted an equal share of public attention. We believe the picture must be removed to-morrow from this town. BEWARE OF IMPOSTORS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR S I beg, through the medium of your columns, to can• tion the public against giving anything for the Home Missior. Society to two men who are at present going about collecting but who are disowned by the only two societies in Liverpoo bearing a similar name.—l am, sir, your obedient servant April 21, 1841. J. T. B. TEETOTALISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—The editor of the Montrose Standard, whose lucu brations on the subject of teetotalism you have transferred to your columns on Tuesday last, commences his observa tions on what he considers the objections to total abstinence societies, by declaring that he is not a teetotaler, because he has never read anything which convinces him that it is his ' duty to abstain from the temperate use of wine and spirits. To this I would say, that the reason is not that sufficiently conclusive arguments have been wanting to convince any one open to conviction, but that it requires a species of logic not yet discovered by the learned to convince (to any prac tical purpose) a man against his will. That I am right in this respect, will, I think, scarcely be doubted by any one who will take the trouble to read a few lines further in the article in question, where the writer as serts that the more a man acts on total-abstinence principles, he takes the SAFEST and the WISEST course—a proposition, if capable of proof (and there is nothing easier), sufficient in itself to decide every man who will candidly consider it, having any pretensions to be governed by the dictates of wisdom. If total abstinence be the safest course, it follows as a natural consequence that the man who acts not upon its principles is voluntarily subjecting . himself to temptation, and all the quibbling in the world will not free him from the charge of presumption; and if it be the wisest course, it follows also that the man who adopts not this wise course must plead guilty to the charge of folly : The editor of the Montrose Standard, therefore, must either become a tee totaller, or recant the proposition which immediately follows the announcement of his not being one. Unless he adopt one or other of these alternatives, I must arrest him in the name of consistency, and fearlessly exclaim that he stands self-convicted of presumption and folly. As you have given publicity to the opinions of the editor of the Montrose Standard, I hope you will do teetotalism the justice to insert the above reply; and if I thought you would allow me as much space in your next paper as his objections have occupied in your last, I think I should have no difficulty in disposing of them.—Yours, &C., A LOVER OF CONSISTENCY. Prescot, 21st April, 1841. [We should be glad to comply with our correspondent's re quest, but we have not room for such a controversy as would inevitably result from it. We hope the insertion of this communication will sa tisfy him and his brethren.] PUBLIC MEETING ON BEHALF OF THE SHOP. KEEPERS' ASSISTANTS A public meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool, con vened by a requisition to the mayor, numerously and respec tably signed, was held in the Sessions House yesterday, for the purpose of " inquiring into the complaints of the assis tants and clerks in the employment of reta►l traders ; and in case such complaints appear reasonable, to consider and de termine on any recommendation to the public and the employers for a curtailment of the hours of labour." The meeting was very numerously attended. Among those pre sent we observed the mayor, the town-clerk, the Rey. Hugh Nl`Neile, the Rev. Fielding Ould, the Rev. F. Barker, Sir J. Walmsley, William Brown, Esq., Adam Hodgson, Esq., William Rathbone, Esq., James Mulleneux, Esq., J. B. Yates, Esq., and many others of equal respectability. The MAYOR, on taking the chair, said that in compliance with a requisition very numerously and highly respectably signed, he had called this public meeting to consider the situ ation of the assistant shopkeepers whose times of attendance in their respective occupations he believed in many cases ex cessively inconvenient and unhealthy, as well as depressing to the spirits and comfort of those engaged in many such pursuits. (Hear, hear.) The town-clerk would read the re quisition, which he might now state was very numerously signed—by clergymen of all denominations, several medical gentlemen, members of the law, and other professions, as well as merchants and bankers, and also he believed by many who took a distinguished part in improving the condition and ameliorating the hardships of many of their friends, who were less favourably situated. (Cheers. The number of signa tures attached to the requisition exceeded 1800. (Hear.) The TOWN-CLERK then read the requisition. It was headed by the Earl of Sefton, and appended to it were the names of a vast number of the principal inhabitants of the borough. The MAYOR said he had received the following letter from the Earl of Sefton, who was unable to attend the meeting : " 38, Belgrave-square, April 21st, 1841. "SIR,-H aving put my name to a requisition to you to call a pulic meeting. for the purpose of inquiring into the complaint of the Tradesmen's Assistants, and not being able to attend at the meeting, which I understand you have been pleased to appoint for to-morrow, I think it right to trouble you with a line to express my approval of the intended con sideration of the question, and my sincere hope that some general system may be recommended and adopted by the tradesmen, which will tend to ameliorate the moral, religious, and physical condition of that deserving class of men. " Yours, &c., " The Mayor of Liverpool. " SEFTON." Mr. ADAM HODGSON rose to move the first resolution, which, with the others, will be found in our advertising co lumns. He had great pleasure in moving this resolution, because be concurred very cordially with the sentiments it expressed, and because he thought the subject very well de serving of consideration. The question involved the com forts and improvement—the moral, intellectual, and religious improvement, of a very large and a very important class of the community—(hear)--a class who were more especially entitled to our sympathies and our efforts, because from their age, and their peculiar position, they were probably less qualified than any other class to protect themselves. It was on the consciousness of their own inability to protect them selves that they had forwarded their request to the Mayor to call this public meeting—not that a public meeting could have the smallest degree of power to control, or the smallest right to interfere in the least degree with the contracts volun tarily entered into by the complainants with their masters, or with the terms and conditions upon which they had chosen to sell their services. He (Mr. Hodgson) altogether dis claimed upon his part, and upon the part of the complainants, any idea of expressing the slightest reflection whatever upon the highly respectable class who were shopkeepers in this town. (Hear.) But since the public was a party to the present system, and since it was for the accommodation of the public that this system had been especially sustained, be thought the public was called upon to come forward and say —" we do not want this accommodation, and we will not purchase it at the expence of such inconvenience and suffering and privation of any class whatever of our fellow-country men," (Hear.) He should best state the case and convey the feelings of the complainants, if the meeting would allow him to read very shortly a few extracts from a paper which he had had put into his hands, and which might be considered the brief of the shopkeepers' assistants. (Hear.) It began by stating the hours of business kept by a few shops, but he would mention no names. One particular shop, it stated, was opened at half-past six o'clock in the morning, and shut at nine in the evening, making fourteen and a half hours a day, and the work after closing, occupied from one to two hours, making a daily labour of from 151 hours to 16 hours ; on Saturdays the shop remained open till ten o'clock. At another shop the hours were about the same. There was also another shop which opened at seven o'clock and closed at nine, making 14 hours—and the work after closing occu pied from one to two hours, making 15 or 16 hours daily ; on Saturdays the shop remained open till ten o'clock. At another shop the same hours were kept, except that it was not closed on Saturday nights till half-past eleven, so that it was generally one or two o'clock on Sunday morning before the assistants were released from their labour. Many small shops in Paradise-street, Whitechapel, Ranelagh-street, St. James's-street, Park-lane, Byrom-street, Scotland-road, Dale-street, London-road, Tithebarn-street, &c., were opened at half-past six in the morning and closed at ten, making seventeen hours, and the labour after closing occu pied two hours, thus making nineteen hours daily work. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Most of these shops did not close on Saturdays till the clock struck twelve; and in the same class of shops there were occasional instances of their being open after twelve. (Hear.) The foregoing, the document he read from stated, were instances of regu lations among the drapers during the six months in the year commencing with April, and ceasing with September. During the other six months the attendance in some instances were one hour, and in others one hour and a half less daily, except on Saturdays, when the hour of closing was the same in winter as in summer. The grocers of Liverpool, it went on, opened their shops in the summer at six, and closed at half-past nine, making fifteen hours and a half daily ; on Saturdays they closed at twelve, making eighteen hours. In winter their daily labour was one hour and a half, except Saturday. In this trade there was no labour after the shop had closed. With the higher class of tildes, such as jewellers, printsellers, booksellers, &c., &c., the general rule was to open their shops from seven till nine in summer, making fourteen hours daily, and in winter from seven to eight, making twelve and a half hours. During the hours of business the assistants are reqcired to stand behind the coun ter, which was a greater fatigue than walking. For each of their meals the assistants were allowed fifteen minutes. This was the general rule ; but there were exceptions, where twenty-five minutes were allowed for dinner. (Hear, hear.) He would read one short passage more :—" The few who are struggling to amend the system, are they who have found light enough to perceive their own utter igno rance, who are depressed by a degraded feeling of their mental condition, as compared with that of men in other occupations, who have discovered that fustian gets and paper caps cover better hearts and wiser heads than are to be found in their own class decked in the finer textures, and whose ambition soars no higher than to claim equal advantage with the mechanic, the once despised but now universally respected mechanic." " The remedy for this," they said, " lies only in the good feeling of the pub lic." (Hear.) Such were their complaints, and we could not perhaps estimate the case without having some such feelings for them ourselves. Such were the facts and feel ings with which the complainants came before the meeting this day. If these facts were proved—and they were capable of proof, for they were matters of notoriety—he for one was not ashamed to say that he sympathised warmly and cordi ally with the feelings of the assistants. (Hear.) For a very long period great efforts had been made to stimulate intellec tual activity in every class of the community ; great efforts had been made to provide opportunities for diffusing informa tion through every class ; and could we wonder if this one class, feeling themselves precluded by the circumstances of their condition from enjoying the advantages held out to other classes, should come forward and desire to express their grievances? (Hear hear.) It was morally impossi ble, if these facts were true, that the assistants could avail themselves of the opportunities for acquiring knowledge which other classes enjoyed (hear, hear) ; it was morally im possible that any person, with a mind jaded and exhausted, and almost consumed by this toil, should be able to give any vigorous exertion to intellectual cultivation. (Hear.) Men of extraordinary genius and energy might occasionally spring up who would break through such obstacles ; but any class depressed by severe toil, deprived of the chance of mental cultivation, and limited in the opportunities of improving their intellectual capacity, must become a degraded class. (Hear.) The shopkeepers' assistants saw and felt this—they felt the light around them made into darkness, and they came for ward with the feelings of Englishmen ,andsaid , we cannot stand this, we cannot stand still while other c!asses of our coun trymen are moving onwards ; we will use every legitimate exertion in our power to endeavour to remove the grievances of which we complain ; but if we cannot remove them, our employers must seek (if they can find them anywhere) for a lower class of men who will submit to the conditions that we have been obliged to submit to. He (Mr. Hodgson) did not regret taking this course. Lord Chatham said, when Ame rica began to urge her claims upon this country, that it was impossible so many hundred thousands of men would be w illing to be slaves to this country. In like manner he (Mr. Hodgson) was glad the assistants had come forward in this way, not in a disrespectful or con temptuous manner, but respectfully, to express their sense of their condition, and to say they could not bear to be permanently dry, whilst the dews of heaven were permanently falling around them. (Hear, hear.) He rejoiced they had shown themselves sensible of the obstructions which the present system caused in the way of religious improvement. Upon that subject, however, he should not say a word, be cause he saw so many of his reverend friends present ; but, before he sat down, he would remind the meeting who were the class whose intellectual growth and religious improve ments they were thus stunting. They were the middle classes of this community ; they were the future tradesmen and shopkeepers who were to choose our representatives in parlia ment, and who were to represent us in the common council ; they were a class to whom the constitution had recently given a very large share of political power. It was, therefore, no longer a question whether you should give them intelligence ; you have given them power, and you must give them intelli gence. (Cheers.) Whether, therefore, we considered this question as affecting the interests of the individuals who caine before the meeting, or that large class throughout the king dom at large to which those individuals belonged, or in con nexion with the interests of the community, he thought the meeting would feel the subject to be one deserving of their interference, and one calling for the serious consideration of every gentleman there assembled. (H ear , h ear, an d l ou d cheers.) He did not presume—he had no information to justify him doing so—to suggest any specific number of hours by which this end might be accomplished. He would only say, let it be such as should meet the entire convenience of the lower classes, who were most to be considered; but at the same time, let it not be such as would degrade a rational and immortal being into an automaton or a servile drudge. (Hear, hear.) Let it be not such as would close the temple pen to others, where of science to this class, whilst it was o they might investig ate the wonders of nature and the bene ficence of the Creator; let it not be such as would consume all their energies o f heart, of body, o f m i n d, an d un fit them for those sacred duties which alone could fit them for time and eternity. (Hear.) They were aware that man must eat bread by t h e s weat of his b row , an d th ere f ore t h ey wanted not to shrink from the hardships of their condition ; but they said, " Relieve us from this incessant work—from this position which we feel to be degrading." (Hear.) With these feelings they came before the meeting this day, and submitted their case to the consideration of the public—not wishing to show any bad feeling towards their masters, but to co-operate with t hem. ( Hear.) If lie might adopt the words so often used by the learned gentlemen who frequently sat on the seats below, be would say to the meeting, " Gen tlemen, this is their case, and I sit down confident that you will give a verdict in their favour. (Loud cheers.) The Rev. Huoir WNEILE then rose , am id renewe d cheers, to second the resolution. He had had very great pleasure in signing the requisition ca lli ng t hi s meet i ng, when it was first presented to him. Th e su bj ect was not new, though a requisition for a public meeting was a new step. The subject had occupied much consideration ; and it must, he thought, occupy the consideration of every person who had become ac quainted in detail with th e c i rcums t ances of the parties concerned, .and who was a l so concerne d f or their best interests , both in this world and in the world to come. But the subject was attended with difficulty. It was difficult to effect a s ubstantial remedy in any long standing and fostered custom, even though upon enquiry i t should prove to be an abuse, and an abuse of so palpable a character that it could not be defended by the argu men t s o f reason or justice even by those who continued in the practice of it. It was difficult to convince men who seemed to be profiting would, in fact, ev en t ua ll y pro fit st ill by an abuse that they ) To see and feel this more by its abolition. (Hear, hear. so confidently as to act upon it required thought, and the bulk of mankind were so mechanically engaged in the routine of their daily and accustomed business, that it required a stimulus of more than ordinary power to make them think. A degree of thought was of cour s e necessary for the accom plishment of their daily business, but a much more enlarged and comprehensive sagacity was required to enable men to detect, and detecting to remedy, the fundamental evils which formed part and parcel of the system under which they lived. (Hear, hear.) To follow foolish precedent, and to wink With both eyes is easier than to think. So said one of our poets in an ag e n ot so celebrated for thinking as the present, but the saying had not lost its application now. We lived in what was called a thinking age—when every subject was agitated, and when the needful stimulus was applied to men's minds to cause them to consider not only the antiquity but the reason of existing customs. Happy would it be for us, and our children afterwards, if, during this inquiry, the high, unchanged, and eternal difference between right and wrong was observed, as it stood revealed in the word of the living God, and kept in view as the regulating standard for mankind. (Hear, hear.) Otherwise without a regulating standard the human mind was so naturally vagrant, and the human heart sonaturally deceit ful, that men in the progress of social improvement, and in the eager pursuit of it, might rush headlong into the midst of wild and disastrous experiment. Changes from proved abuses were duties ; but wisdom, discretion, judgment, forbearance, patience, and a consideration of the various collateral inter ests involved were necessary to make those changes im provements ; for it was not every change that could be dignified with the name of improvement. The change they proposed on the present occasion they thought would be an improvement, and they adopted this course in aiming at the change, in order that the merits of the case might be fairly and sufficiently examined. The facts of the case—some of them—had been already briefly laid before the public from the paper which Mr. Hodgson,,had read. The parties concerned were a numerous class; the assist ants in shops in this town, together with the porters and messengers connected with those shops, amounted to no smaller number than 15,000 persons. He had had sup plied to him a statistical account, which he had no doubt contained as great an approximation to the truth and to the real state of the case, as statistical accounts generally did. This account estimated the number of drapers' shops in this town at 2.so—the average number of assistants employed in those shops was eight, making a total number of assistants employed in drapers' shops at 2,000 persons ; the number of grocers' shops in the town was five hundred—the average number of assistants employed in each two, making the number of assistants in grocers' shops 1000 ; the number of provision shops in Liverpool was 500—the average num ber of assistants employed in each 2, making the gross num ber of assistants 1000 ; of chemists and druggists there were 150—the average number of assistants employed in each 2, making 300 in all ; boot and shoemakers there were 612 the average number of assistants 11, or 3 to two shops, mak ing 918 ; and so the list went on showing that the aggregate number of 9000 were actually employed as assistants in shops. To these there were to be added porters and errand boys — an average allowance of 11 to each shop, which would give 6000, or altogether about 15,000 persons. Now, with regard to those in the shops, the meeting had already heard, from the paper read by Mr. Hodgson, that they were required to be in attendance fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, and in some instances seventeen hours a-day, and in one or two cases men tioned in the list, upon Saturday the whole amount of their time realized 18 hours. This the resolution the meeting were called upon to adopt, called " an unnatural amount of la bour." He thought, however, that a very general impres sion was abroad that the young men in shops were not over laboured, that the work they had to perform was light, and that the time they were occupied in it should not therefore be so rigidly scrutinised. But recollect, it had been stated in the paper which Mr. Hodgson had read, that during the whole time of their employment in the shops they were obliged to stand. (Hear.) No sitting down was allowed behind the counter. (Hear, hear.) Those who had never tried it might imagine that standing a long time pro duced little fatigue ; but he (Mr. M`Neile) could answer from experience that they were very greatly mistaken. (Hear, hear.) Standing for a long time induced very serious lassitude, more, he sincerely believed, than walking at a mo derate pace for the same number of hours. (Cheers.) Con nected with this was another feature—they were not allowed to read during that period ; no book must appear in the shop, so that during the intervals, and there must be intervals be tween the visits of customers, these young men were absolutely and inevitably idle. (Hear, hear.) Nay, even their private letters were not delivered to them, so that they should not read them behind the counter. (Hear, hear.) It was here stated, " instances could be given of letters for the assistants delivered in the morning being detained by the employers till after the long hours of business, lest five minutes should be lost in the perusal, or the assistant's attention diverted for a moment from his master's business ; letters had even been kept back for days to be given to their owners on the Sunday." He mentioned this, not to create any such feeling with re gard to the masters as had produced the cry which had invo luntarily burst from a few individuals in the meeting, but simply to put the public in possession of the facts of the case. He believed this was the first thing to be done—the public must be put in possession of the existing hardships of the case, and there were hardships in the case. (Hear.) When it was understood that these young men were em ployed from fifteen to seventeen hours a-day, that during that time they could not sit down for one moment, that they might not open a book, that even private letters were kept back from them,—it must he admitted that there was a degree of exaction which the business of the master in no way re required. (Hear.) There was a tyrant somewhere. It was not in the disposition of the masters, for they were kind men, and willing to ameliorate the condition of their assistants in every way consistent with their own business. Where was it then but in custom ? The tyrant was custom, and they wanted to have that custom examined, in order to its being changed. (Hear.) Their appeal was to the public, but not against the masters. (Loud cheers.) An objection would be urged, and urged very seriously, against such a proceeding as this, which his own mind would at once recog nize, and prevent him from joining in that meeting, namely, if this were a party movement of the assistants against their masters—if there was any attempt at coercion of the masters. (Hear, hear.) It required considerable caution and great delicacy to interfere with regulations and contracts formed between employers and the employed in any branch of trade in our great commercial community. Where interference was called for was where the employed were under-aged, or were unable themselves to form contracts, and who might be made subservient to the cupidity of parents and guardians who did not feel for the necessities of their children, and who allowed them to be taken into factories and compelled to a description of labonr, which was injurious both to body and mind. These cases admitted interference between the children and the employers, because they could not make contracts of themselves; but he should shrink exceedingly from being a party to interfere with contracts between man and man voluntarily entered into. (Hear, hear.) What they were now desirous of doing was, not to interfere be tween employers and their servants, but to appeal to the pub lic for the accomplishment of an object in which they con templated the masters as willing to co-operate. (Cheers.) He looked upon the masters as willing to co-operate, if they could ; but how was combination to be attained ? How was an universal and simultaneous movement to be accomplished ? And without such combination and simultaneous movement, how was fairness of competition to be kept up ? Hear, hear.) If some shops closed at seven o'clock and others at ten, how was the man who trafficked only ten hours a day to compete with the man who trafficked for fifteen hours ? The masters might very fairly say, " lam willing to enter into this arrangement provided it is univer sally made, but can you expect me to do it whilst my neigh bour does it not, and so expose myself to the mortification and loss of seeing my door shut to customers three or four hours night, and an open door to them at my neighbours ? dear.) If customers would persevere in frequenting shop: chat remained open a long time at night, the thing could not be done by any such movement as the present ;—(hear)--- their appeal then was to the customers and to the public. They appealed to them thus—" here is a case of hardship on the assistants, a case of willingness in the masters, and if the evil be continued, you are to blame. What we want you to do is, that you should give a decided preference to those shops that shut up at seven o'clock in the evening." (Cheers.) They were in a condition to commence this experiment well, because there were some high-spirited, honourable shop keepers in Liverpool, who, in the face of all difficulty, in the face of all unfairness in competition, had boldly taken the step of shutting their shop doors at seven o'clock. (Hear.) It was a privilege to mention their names : he would, there fore, read their names, and implore the public of Liverpool to give them their best and earnest support. (Cheers.) They were Messrs. Bright and Co., drapers, Bold-street; Mr. T. Wilson, draper, Bold-street; Messrs. Howarth and Co. drapers, Bold-street; Mr. Townsend, stationer, Bold-street; Mr. Wood, carpet warehouse, Bold-street; Messrs. Williams and Whitby, Bold-street; Mr. Seaton, paper-hanger, Bold-street; Mr. Bardon, tailor, &c., Bold street; Mrs. Wood, bookseller, Bold-street; Mr. Anderson, linen-warehouse, Bold-street. (Hear.) The paper then said, " and some others." He regretted exceedingly that any one who had a title to the distinction should be omitted. (Hear.) He would not willingly omit one, and if any were omitted in the list, it was because it was not furnished in the instructions, and he was not aware of them from his own personal knowledge. (Cheers.) Here was a list of shops that agreed with the object of the meeting, which were willin to accede to the desires of the chief magistrate and th clergy •, and the magistrates of the town who co-operated with them ; they should at once be made to feel in every in stance, not only that they would lose nothing by shuttin their shops at seven o'clock, but that absolutely the would gain. (Hear.) The way to carry this measure was for the public of Liverpool to crowd those shops to suffocae tion all day long. (Cheers.) He did not say this to injur the shops that did not enter into the arrangement, but to induce combination in order that all shops might be shut at seven, and all be entitled to support. (Loud cheers.) There was one special feature in this case, which he thought it important to notice before he passed from the subject of time, and that was the special claim which some persons felt Saturday had for an enlarged number of hours to work. (Hear.) Here again came in the tyrant custom. Satur day was the market-day ; idle people generally went about the streets on Saturday evenings ; and if the fine, and rich, and glittering shops, with large panes of plate glass, and blazing gas-lights were kept till eleven at night to get custom, those idle people would walk the streets till that hour. What was the consequence ? There was in most of the shops, espe cially the draper's, the work of an hour, sometimes two hours, for the assistants after the outside door was closed. This almost invariably drove those young men into the com pulsion of working upon the Sabbath morning. (Hear, hear.) He felt satisfied, however, that the majority of the public of Liverpool would not sanction any system, when they knew that it systematically violated the sabbath by such works as these (hear, hear) ; therefore the meeting should claim the same period for terminating the labour of the assistants upon Saturdays as upon other days. He had heard an objection against all this, grounded, it was said, upon experiment, and upon certain facts alleged against the conduct of the young men themselves. The experiment he alluded to was the " Tradesmen's Association," which was subscribed to, and supported by, the masters, in order that their young men might improve themselves by reading. It was not, however, supported by the assistants. He believed it was attended only by 150 of them out of 9000. (Hear.) That fact was appealed to as a proof that there was no use in giving them more leisure, for they had abused the time already given them. Another statement was made, into the truth of which, or rather the extent of the truth of which, he was not prepared to enter ; but into the nature of it he was. it was alleged concerning them that even now, in the short intervals allowed for their meals, or in short snatches of time taken by stealth, they ran to public-houses and drank. This was alleged as a reason why there should be no mitigation of their permanent period of labour. He pleaded these facts as upon his side of the argument, because they shewed that the pre sent system had debased the character of these men from the self control of human intelligence down to a mix ture of mechanism in business and animal indulgence in enjoyment. (Loud applause.) It required some time to recover from the ill effects of such a stupefying system as this: It reminded him of some of the arguments he had the misfortune to hear often u r g ed many years ago by the anti-abolitionists, respecting the negro slaves. They told us the poor negroes were so de g raded that they did not care for liberty, that they preferred theirbondabgaec,katnodtthehairt if you made them free they would sigh to go bonds. (Hear.) He heard an instance of one who mwhoabdyefreeland ing; upon our happy shore , h ad i p so facto that notwithstanding he had . been made free by landing in Eneand, he preferred a life of slavery, and returned as such to the West Indies. What did that prove ? It proved that the state of slavery had deprived him of the feelings and principles of a man—(cheers) ; an d if this shopkeeping system had so degraded a set of young men that when time was afforded them they made a bad use of it, he protested he thought it one of the strongest argu ments in favour of a change —an additional argument for a well-regulated and judiciously-managed change. (Cheers.) He was not advocating any rash, intemperate measure, but one that would give an opportunity to improve the habits and condition of these young men—and he was sorry to say that there was too good reason for calling them young men, for the injury done by the system to their health prevented many of them from living to an advanced age. It was a grievous fact in their history, as set forth in a pamphlet published under the name of John Tompkins, and he did not know the slightest reason for doubting the truth of the statement, that few of them attained the age of 40 years, and that most of them died ender the age of 30. (Hear.) It was morally impossible for them to emerge from the effects of a system under which they had been long living, and at once to Mani fest what could only be the produce of long and patient culture. He claimed then time for them. (Hear, hear.) How else could their minds be enlarged ? How could their responsibilities as immortal beings be felt and realised ? How could their position, with regard to Almighty God, be felt by themselves ? How could they feel their privileges as Chris tians under the light of revealed religion, in the glory of the Father who had given his dear Son for them ? How could the privileges of Christians be realised without time ? (Hear, hear.) They must have time to think otherwise. In vain would their parents inculcate upon them to be good and affec tionate sons ; in vain their masters inculcate honesty in the discharge of their business ; in vain their pastors inculcate upon them, when chance gave them time to call upon them, to search the scriptures,,to read the word of God, and to pray. It was mockery to tell them all this if they had no time to do it. (Hear.) It was calling upon them with the voice of an Egyptian taskmaster to go make brick, when the materials for making them were witheld. (Hear.) Upon these grounds it was that they made their appeal to the public ; and a good opportunity was now offered for bring ing unanimity among the masters, which they were willing to act upon, lie was willing to believe, provided it could be done with fairness to themselves. With regard to this, and in conclusion, he would mention a circumstance which, though upon a small scale, shewed what could be done by combination—still leaving the difficulty of combining such a town as this. He recollected a circumstance which occurred some years ago in a country parish in the south of England. The clergyman found there were four grocers who kept their shops open upon Sundays. They kept them open half the day, and the poor people were in the habit of making their purchases. He was anxious to put an end to this desecration of the Sab bath, and he called upon each of them for that purpose. They each professed the greatest possible willingness to close their shops, provided the other three would. Having got this promise severally from each of them, he appointed a time for them to meet at his house, without informing one that he:had invited the other ; and to their great surpise they found themselves, at the appointed time, face to face, in the parson's study. (Hear.) " Now," said he to them, " gen tlemen, you have each promised me that if the other three will close their shops on the Sunday, you will each shut up yours." They could not deny it. " Here," said he, "is a paper I have drawn up, pledging you to keep your shops closed on the Sunday ; I tell you honestly I want to get your four signatures to it, and to fix it upon the church-doors next Sunday." They looked upon the paper rather suspiciously, as to who should sign first. He said to them, " You need not mind that, for I will give you my word, unless :the whole four sign it, it shall not be signed at all." One then stepped forward, and signed the paper ; eventually they all signed it ; it was put upon the church-door the next Sunday, and no one was injured by it, but everyone was benefitted. (Cheers.) The story was not yet finished. There was temporary inconvenience aris ing to the poor people from the farmers paying their labourers upon the Saturday night: this was brought into obser vation; an immediate appeal was made to the public of the parish; the farmers were gathered together with the small shopkeepers at a public meeting, and every farmer in the parish, except one little cantankerous fellow—for such there always would be--agreed to pay their labourers upon the Friday evening. (Cheers.) They were paid upon the Fri day—their wives went to the shops on Saturday—the shops were all shut on Sunday—and the parish wore an aspect of moral improvement and religious attention, such as never would have been but for the combination among the grocers to begin with. (Loud cheering, during which the rev. gen tleman sat down.) The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously. Mr. JAMES MULLENEUX moved the next resolution, ob serving that the grievances and the patience of the shop keepers' assistants had been long familiar to his mind and long deplored. He had been connected the greater portion of his existence with an institution which, after exertions and efforts of no ordinary nature, had attained a degree of pros perity which enabled it to diffuse the blessings of education, of knowledge, and of rational improvement, among every class of the community. He alluded to the Mechanics' In stitution. (Hear, hear.) The only portion of his fellow townsmen who could not claim those advantages were the class whose interests they had met to serve, and this arose from causes which they were endeavouring to remove. He was aware of the formidable difficulties which surrounded the question ; but lie sincerely hoped and trusted that the truly public-spirited, liberal and enlightened shopkeepers of Liverpool would surmount these difficulties, and place their assistants upon an equality of comfort and advantages with the rest of their fellow-citizens. (Loud cheers.) The Rev. F. BARKER, in seconding the resolution said he should have felt ashamed of himself as an Englishman and a minister, if he bad refused to come forward in such a cause as this. It was a movement only in accordance with much more that had already been done, and with much that was still doing in the empire. We had liberated tens of thou sands of the sons of Africa; the legislature had been occu pied for a considerable portion of time in enacting laws for the better regulation of factory children, and when those laws were found to be not sufficiently stringent because they did not embrace the children employed in silk factories they were amended ; the chimney sweepers had not escaped notice; the boatmen employed on our canals had had their case examined, and the difficulties in the way of their moral improvement removed; and now another class of our fellow-countrymen stepped forward. From the strong justice of their case, he felt assured of a ready, patient, and impartial hearing, under the auspices of the chief magistrate, when they claimed to be set free from the bonds of this op pressive system. He should deem it almost an intrusion it he were to attempt to enter upon the resolution in a practical manner ; but he deemed it not an intrusion in a minister o the gracious gospel of God to advance such a cause as thi by advocating those high and holy grounds whose force could overcome every difficulty. The resolution spoke of the labour of the assistants being limited to ten hours a-day.—The rev. gentleman then contended that ten hours a-day was amply sufficient for all the purposes of business, and that the only question was the public convenience. The only sufferers by the change, as it seemed to him, would be the labouring classes. This consideration brought him to the other abuse, which was the payment of wages by employers upon Satur day night. Let that question, too, be agitated ; let mfor mition upon it be placed before the public mind, in order that they might see how intimately this was connected with the abuse which concerned this meeting. He knew it to be the custom of many large and influential tradesmen to pay their weekly wages on the Friday evening ;no inconvenience arose from the practice, and he was acquainted with the fa milies of several labourers who regularly attended divine worship on the Sunday, which they could not have done if their wages had been paid upon Saturday night. This question, then, might fairly be brought before the public. He was requested to say that the Mayor's and several other houses paid their wages upon Friday night.—The reverend gentleman then proceeded to argue the question of giving additional time to the shopkeepers' assistants, upon religious ' grounds, and he concluded an impressive speech by second ing the resolution. The MAYOR then put the resolution, and it was adopted unanimously. An ASSISTANT here recited some verses, in which the whole case of his coadjutors was described with considerable spirit. Mr. W. B. HODGSON moved the third resolution. There were three parties in this question—the assistants, the shop keepers, and the public. He considered the two first as willing to co operate for the alteration of a system which was injurious to both; but the chief difficulty lay in securing the co-operation of the public. If that were accomplished the object could be attained. To effect it, that meeting as indi viduals must pledge themselves not to support the present system, but keep up that which was but now begun—a con stant system of agitation against it. The Rev. FIELDING OULD observed that the subject had now been discussed in every possible way ; it had been dis cussed in sober prose, and in some beautiful poetry; and the cause had been advocated by Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen. Every thing had thus been said to make out an exceedingly strong case ; and, therefore, it was by no means necessary that he should trespass upon the meeting except for a very few moments. He could not do justice to his feelings in this matter if he did not distinctly say that he deeply sympathised with those persons whose interests they were assembled to promote, and no one could feel more anxious than he did, or more disposed to use every exertion, to accomplish the very reasonable objects of the assistants. He had taken some pains to make enquiries and to instruct his mind upon this subject by speaking to several em ployers, and he had met with none who did not deeply sympathise with the assistants, and express most earnest anxiety to obtain relief for them. The rev. gent. laid down the following as their grievances :—first, that the present system was a serious injury to their health ; second, that it prevented them from employing their time in mental improvement ; third, that in many instances it prevented them from seeing and enjoying the society of their own fami lies ; and fourth, that it prevented them from attending di vine worship upon the Lord's Day. Having dwelt with great eloquence upon these positions, Mr. Ould next replied to the following objections :—first, that if more time were granted to the assistants, it would certainly be mis-spent ; secondly, that the only way to accomplish the end was, by a legislative enactment; third, that the convenience of many persons required late hours to be kept by shopkeepers ; and fourth, that the assistants generally did not care for the relief now sought as only a few of them had asked for it. As to this last objection, he had been told that many had been restrained from interfering by fear, and from a convic tion that success was hopeless. At this day that was impos sible. Napoleon Bonapare said that in his dictionary there was no such word as impossible—and there was nothing he (Mr. Odd) held, which it was right and proper to be done which it was impossible to do. He was far from thinking success was impossible. They were making a beginning under favourable circumstances ; they had the countenance of the mayor and magistrates of the town which was a very impor tant consideration ; they had the support of the humane, cha ritable,and religious, and no cause so backed had ever yet been found impossible of attainment. It was unnecessary for him to say another word. He hoped there would other meet ings on the subject, for the present would not be sufficient to leaven the public mind. Let the mayor call them together again and again, and he for one would come. (Loud cheers). It was the cause of Christian charity. They wanted a ten hours' bill, and after alittle wholesome agitation—as agita tion seemed to be fashionable in these times—they would gain it. (Cheers.) The reverend gentleman concluded by seconding the resolution. After a few words from a Mr. WINTYRE, the resolution was put and carried. Mr. J. B. YATES, after expressing his hearty concurrence in the general objects of the meeting, and suggesting that in order to enable the shopkeepers to close at an earlier hour on Saturday nights, the markets should be closed sooner, (which could be done by the town-council) moved the fol lowing as the next resolution : " That, in the opinion of this meeting, ten hours each day (Sundays excepted) are amply sufficient for trausacting the necessary business of the shopkeepers, and their release from further labour would greatly promote the moral, religious, and social improvement of the assistants ; that the persons now present pledge themselves cheerfully to submit to any trifling inconvenience that may arise from the proposed re laxation, and to support and encourage those tradesmen who conform to the wishes of the inhabitants, expressed through the present meeting publicly convened for the purpose. That the resolutions be signed by the Mayor, on behalf of the Meeting, and advertised in each of the public journals." Mr. WILLIAM BROWN said he had not intended to take any part in the proceedings, but from the arguments he had heard, and the facts stated, he did not see how it was possible for any man to dissent from the resolution proposed by Mr. Yates. He had therefore great pleasure in seconding it. Sir JosnvA WALMSLEY said he had declined signing the requisition, because he wished first to understand the subject, and to know whether the meeting was to be . an attempt at coercion by :the assistants against the masters. He had heard that disclaimed in all hands, an d that there was not the slightest opposition but the contrary, on the part of the shopkeepers to improve the present systeii. If that was the case, it was f or the pu b l i c to wor k it out. No man could feel more strongly than he di the necessity of releasing the assistants of shopkeepers from their employment at au hour su ffi ciently early to enable them to go to some place for instruction, and their masters bel' willing, it only remained for the inhabitants to express their opinion with determination, and to carry it out by all the means in their power. With this view he should move an amendment, which would place the onus of not carrying the wishes of the meeting into effect,_ not upon the shopkeepers, but upon the public. He expressed a wish that the clerks in merchants counting houses and attorneys' offices should also have their hours of labour reduced. Mr. CHESNEY seconded the amendment. Mr. ADAM HODGSON opposed the amendment, on the ground that it was in the Mature of a threat. Mr. JAMES OWEN thought the meeting had gone too far in deciding that the shops should be closed at seven in the evening. He was sure that would never be attained ; and he would suggest that eight should be fixed. An ASSISTANT supported the amendment. Mr. TURNER, shoemaker, opposed it. . . . Mr. WM . RATHBONE requested the mover to withdraw the amendment, as it pledged the meeting to a principle which could scarcely be expected to be kept. He approved of what had fallen from Sir J. Walmsley vespecting the shortening of the hours of clerks in countinz-houses, and would mention that their's (Rathbone Brothers) had been, for twenty years, closed at six o'clock. Mr. WILLIAM BROWN' said, from what had fallen from Sir Joshua Walmsley it might be inferred that merchants' clerks were as badly off as shopkeepers' assistants. That was not the case. Mr. Brown then described how his clerks were treated, from which it appeared that they commenced their duties at nine or half-past nine in the morning, and closed at seven, or earlier if there was no business going on, and that in the day they were supplied with newspapers and periodicals. Mr. BATESON supported the amendment. An AsstsTANTalso supported it in. an address which caus, considerable amusement Sir J. WA LMSLEY and Mr. YATES having each explained their proposition. The MAYOR then took a show of hands on the amend ment and the original motion, and declared the amendment to have been carried. It appears in the advertisement as one of the resolutions. On the motion of the Rev. F. BARKER, seconded by the Rev. FIELDING OULD, a vote of thanks was presented to . the mayor for his able and courteous conduct in the chair. The MAYOR returned thanks very briefly, and at three o'clock the meeting separated. A. shower of hail fell over this city yesterday. Some of the hail-stones were nearly an inch in diameter.—Durham Chronicle of Friday. The loss sustained by the Bank of England on discount ing acceptances amounting to forty millions sterling, does not e = xceed twopence-halfpenny per cent. The Queen Dowager, with her accustomed liberality, has subscribed 410 towards the erection of the new parish church of Portsea. Her Majesty has also given £2O towards the erection of a new church in Stokes Bay, near Gosport. — Hampshire Telegraph. A RESEMBLANCE.—" Colonel W. is a fine-looking man, ain't he?" said a friend of ours the other day. " Yes," replied another; " I was taken for him once." " You! why, you're as ugly as sin !" " I don't care for that : I was taken for him ; I endorsed his note, and was taken for him —by the sheriff."—American paper. DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT BY FIRE-ARMS.---A fine youth, named Jones, a grandson of Mrs: Humphreys, of Trepenal, near Llanymynech, was at a neighbouring blacksmith's shop, on the sth inst., when one of the men proceeded to clean an old gun. Not being able to unscrew the breech when placed in a vyse, the thoughtless fellow thrust the barrel into the fire without first examining it, and the consequences were dread ful. The piece was heavily charged with large shot ;—it im mediately exploded, and the poor boy received the greatest part of the contents in his left breast and shoulder. The sufferer was carried to the nearest house, when surgical as sistance obtained as early as possible; in a day or two, a somewhat favourable opinion was pronounced on the case, and it gives us much pleasure to hear that the boy is going on well. CONGLETON CONSERVATIVE DINNER TO SIR P. EGER. TON, M.P., AND JOHN TOLLEMACHE, ESQ.—This meeting took place on Wednesday week last, and went off in a style and spirit that surpassed the most sanguine expectations of its warmest promoters, and no one who had the gratification of witnessing the proud display it afforded to the conserva tive strength of the once radical town of Congleton can fail to regard this festival as an omen of the approaching eman cipation of South Cheshire from whiggery. The chair was most worthily filled by Gibbs Crawford Antrobus, of Eaton Hall, Esq., ably supported by Randle Wilbraham, Jun., Esq., and James Bateman. Esq., and the meeting was ably addressed by Sir Philip Egerton, Mr. Samuel Holme, Mr. Tollemache and others. It ought to be generally known, that members of town councils are not only exempt from, but absolutely disqualified for, serving on juries. In a recent case tried in the Sheriff's Court at Devonport, a Mr. Liscombe, one of the town council of that borough, having objected to serve on a jury, on the ground of his being a member of the town-council, the objection was over-ruled by the under-sheriff. After the trial had proceeded for some time, a copy of the act of par liament was obtained, and the disqualification discovered. Mr. Liscombe was therefore directed to leave the jury-box, and another gentleman, who had been summoned as a juror, and had remained in court, although not called, was sworn in his stead. EXTRAORDINARY TRAVELLING. —Some ti me since gentleman in York undertook to perform a journey from York to the metropolis, and arrive again in York in twenty four hours. The attempt was made during the last week. The party aUuded to started from the railway station at York on Thursday morning week, at forty-five minutes past eight o'clock, and arrived in London precisely at half-past seven o'clock the same evening. He transacted business with one or two parties in London, and availed himself of an opportu nity of visiting Covent Garden Theatre, where he remained upwards of a quarter of an hour ; and after taking a sti.oll through the market, and purchasing sundry early produc tions, returned by the mail train to York, where he arrived, with comparatively no fatigue, the following morning, at ten minutes before eight o'clock—thus completing the whole journey in twenty-three hours and five minutes, a total dis -1 tance of 450 miles.—Hull Advertiser. We understand that arrangements are now in progress for raising and organising an additional number of veteran com panies, for exclusive and permanent service in Canada, where they are to be employed upon garrison duty. Their princi pal strength in rank and file will consist of volunteers from the regiments at present stationed in America, more espe cially from such of them as are under orders to return home. The officers and non-commissioned officers will, we believe, be taken from the full pay of the line ; and we hope that the General Commanding in Chief will not, in filling up the various appointments, lose sight of the merits and strong claims for promotion of the numerous old and deserving, but unfortunate, subalterns. who after having for a long period of their lives devoted their best energies to the service, are now, comparatively, unfit for any save garrison duty ; and if not kindly patronised by Lord Hill upon the forthcoming occasion, must necessarily soon be reduced to the distress ing alternative of going upon half-pay.—United Service Gazette. THE WIDOW OF THE GRAND ARMY.—About the close of the last year an old woman, with all the confident air of one who had passed her life in camps, went to a retired officer, and, after reviving his recollections of many battles, and hi military terms, some of them not the most refined, bore tes timony to his feats of arms, informed him that, being the oldest female follower of the troops of Napoleon, she had been invested with the title of the widow of the Grand Army ; and, in consequence of this distinction, had been allowed to accompany the expedition to St. Helena, was present at the exhumation of the remains of the Emperor, which she ac companied all the way back to France, and followed to their last deposit at the Invalides. She concluded her boastful narrative, by stating that the government had granted her a donation of 5000 f, which she was to receive in a few days ; but, in the meantime, her finances were reduced by her long journeyings, and therefore requested him to lend her 125 f, which she would faithfully repay. The worthy old officer, giving too easy credit to her tale, advanced her the money. A considerable time having elapsed without the re-appear ance of the plausible widow, he made inquiries, and soon as certained that the whole tale was pure invention ; but all efforts to discover her have hitherto been ineffectual. Having lodged a complaint, she was yesterday condemned in default, by the Correctional Tribunal, to 12 months' imprisonment. —Galignani. Sister Sainte Gabrielli, the sister of charity, and acquittal upon an indictment for homicide by impru dence, in administering to a patient at the Hotel Dieu a a quantity of corrosive sublimate instead of Glauber's salts, from which death ensued, we gave a short time since, made her appearance yesterday before the Cour Royale, the Pro cureur du Roi having lodged an appeal against the judgment of the court below. She was again attended by the superior of her order, and by another sister. She had only been that morning informed of her having to undergo this new ordeal, and was much cast down, and bathed in tears. The presi dent ordered a chair to be placed for her, near her counsel, M. Charles Ledru, and every attention was paid her. The advocate-general confined himself to a simple statement of the case, and the grounds of the appeal, using no arg of aggravation, leaving the matter entirely to the discretion of the court. M. C. Ledru, in rising to plead in defence of his interestinc , client, found it necessary to say but few words , go measured, he sald, was the requisition of the public pro secutor, who declared that the appeal had been lodged only from a scrupulous respect to the laws. " This," replied the learned counsel, is good in principle, but in the presence of the noble-minded sister then before them, the penal code became a dead letter." He then cited an article in the con stitutions of the order, by which all the sisters were solemnly bound—rich as well as poor, the most exalted as well as the most hnmble—to leave everything, even the most sacred of their spiritual duties, including confession and communion, to render their aid to the poor, and, above all, to the sick. This sacred duty the good sister, his client, he affirmed, had strictly performed for 32 years, and, therefore. had no need of the precepts of the penal code. The address of M. Charles Ledru, though short, was elegant and impressive, and so accordant with the sentiments of the judges, that they did not retire, but at once dismissed the appeal. Upon this Sister Ste. Gabrielli made her obeisance to the coin t ; and withdrew with her counsel and other attendants, receiving many marks of respect from the audience.—Galignatzi. Drvistos OF PILOPIRTY. — At a,meeting of radicals and republicans, held a short time since at Carcassonne, as a letter from that place states, the persons present amused themselvet by drawing lots for portions of the estate of a marquis in the neighbourhood, in the event of any future revolution taking place ! ROYAL DEMISE.—On Wednesday the funeral of old Isaacs, the king of the gipsies. took place at Yatton, a village about nine miles west of Bristol ; there was a very large as• nimbly of the black-eyed brunettes. The ceremony was fol. lowed by sundry and various libations of heavy wet, short and cold without, until sorrow was floated up to mirth, am mirth stimulated to anger, and the " funeral baked meats' were knocked about in one general row.—Deronshire Chro nicle. A PUBLIC -SPIRII ED M A N.—Mr. Thomas Richardson, of Stamford-hill, and Aytoun House, Yorkshire, a thrice liberal member of a sect renowned for its benevolence, has very re cently performed an act of munificence. He had, on many occasions, liberally endowed British schools in various places; and he has now given the sum of £5,000 to found an agricul tural school. The estate of Mr. Philip Heseltine, at Ayton, near Stokesley, has been purchased for the purposes of a school and model farm, and an institution, long needed in the north. will be supplied by the wise liberality of Mr. Richardson, a id e d b y contr ib ut i ons f rom o th e r sources. The school is intended only for Quaker pupils.—Globe. THE AMMON' FISHERMEN. — The Queen transmitted £lO. 10s. to Stanhope Jones, Esq., Ma or of Beaumaris, in aid of the poor Irish oystenn Dowager has occupation of these hard-working : uence of the loss of and 's well-behavedfund. The men -y The seq must be considered as " gone," n ec' their stock in trade, unless the benevolent step in to their rescue. CHUSCH•AATE TRIUMPH AT LYNN.—On Monday, being h an tp a en:e e . . Easter Monday, was the election for churchwardens, &c. Great opposition was exhibited. Every proposition made by the churchwardens was opposed, but, as usual, to no ef fect. Messrs• Cresswell and Everard were re-elected as Z s thperoepnossueidngbyyeamr. two p ence o s f el e f i! conded by Mr. E. Eyre. A rate of twopence in th in churchwardens tb we e proposed by Mr. John Keed, and seconded e pound e pound David Menzie. A poll was demanded by Mr. nb y Mr ' kept open till Wednesday, at four o'clock, and Keed. and lows :—For Mr. Self's motion of 8d 2 closed as fol lows: 2d., 167; majority for a h _ , 09 ; for Mr. Keed's wieh Times. c urch-rate of 8d 123 N•I .•••._ or-