The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

vrorettino in parliithinit. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. After our telegraphic dispatch of last week the House re solved itself into a Committee of Supply, when Captain Bol dero carried a motion against the Government, by a majority of 48 to 40, for the better accommodation of assistant surgeons am board ships.—Col. SIBTHORP moved the reduction of the Lords of the Admiralty by two, but this was rejected by a ma jority of 110 to 33. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY, Ministers sustained a virtual defeat on an important question, ,u., one of taxation. Lord DUNCAN moved resolutions in favour of a repeal of the "Window Tax, which were seconded by General EVANS, and supported by Lord D. Stuart, Sir G. Pechell, Sir B. Hall, Mr. Hume, and Lord It. Grosvenor. The opposition was left entirely to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who said he could not afford to give up nearly -X2,000,000 of revenue : and he denied the tax pressed upon the poor : for out of 3,500,000 houses in the kingdom, only the v • d JOdd 300,000 paid, the rest being exempt. On a division, the resolutions were negatived by a majority of SO to 77 ; and this narrow Ministerial escape of a majority of 3 far Ministers would have been reversed, had not Mr. L. King and Mr. Alcock been detained at the Reigate Sessions too late for the division, and Mr. D'Eyncourt and Mr. J. Williams been accidentally shut out. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL obtained leave to bring in a bill to provide more simple and effectual securities for advances to •purchasers of encumbered estates in Ireland. HOUSE OFCOMMONS.-WEDNESDAY. Mr. FITZROY moved the second reading of the County Court Extension Bill. Sir G. GREY was willing to admit that there was a strong feeling in the codntry in favour of this bill, but he felt, not withstanding, , that the greatest caution should be observed in sealing with the subject. The bill before them would change the character of the county courts, which would cease to be for the recovery of small debts. The bill proposed to extend the jurisdiction from .e2O to £5O in cases of debt, and from .e 5 to .e2O in cases of tort, slander, &c., thus leading to superseding the jurisdiction of the superior courts in Westminster alto gether. The right hon. baronet moved as an amendment that the bill should be read a second time that day six months. Mr. MARTIN said the bill was the first step towards doing away with trial by jury. He admitted that the procedure in the courts in this country might be much amended, but he thought it would be extremely mischievous to extend to .e5O a jurisdiction in which the judge had to decide upon questions of law and fact together. Mr. J. Evans, Mr. Christopher, Mr. Cockburn, and Col. 'Thompson supported the bill; and Mr. B. Denison and the Attorney-General opposed it. After a few words from Mr. AGLIONIIY, Mr. MuLLINGs, and 34r. HUME, in support of the bill, the house divided, when there appeared, for the second reading, 144 ; against it 67. Sir G. GREY, in reply to Mr. HUME, said, as the house affirmed the bill lie should confine his attention to the salaries of the judges and clerks, any increase to which he would oppose. I'he remainder of the sitting was occupied in committee on the clauses of the Public Libraries - and Museum Bill, which were respectively carried, notwithstanding several divisions against them. HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURSDAY. CHRISTOHER, on the part of Mr. Cayiey, gave notice that the hon. member would not bring on his motion for the repeal of the Malt Tax on Tuesday next, as that day was named for the motion, so that it is postponed sine die. In reply to a question from Mr. HOUSMAN. Lord J. RUSSELL stated that it was intended that the new Deans of Hereford and Salisbury should have an income of ..tl5OO a-year, and their successors should only have £lOOO, and that no dean should be permitted to hold any cure of souls more than three miles distance from his cathedral town. The house then went into committee upon the Parliamentary Votes Bill, when Lord Castlereagh abandoned his notice for altering the franchise from to .el 2. Lord - J. RUSSELL announced that the Government declined to adopt Mr. Monsell's plan for uniting the small boroughs to districts for returning members but added, it was an object - which I rate me if thought desirable, bTas.;4;l The House then proceeded with the consideration of the clauses. The division took place on the 57th clause, the ques tion being whether the assistant-barristers should have the discretionary power of granting the right of appeal. For the discretinn., ,, ---- t, 33; majority, 69. up to the 119th,and on ame of an occupant of an ist of voters, he may require e of refusal to vote without gainst it the clause the 110th, whict ..R8 tenement be provid :I from t to be inserted, and in eas, An amendment was moved ne =Mee divided, but the clause w , gativing the clauses; the com as carried by a large majority. --. 0 .-____ GREECE.—The differences between England and Greece HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. are considered as settled. An official announcement of Lord J. RUSSELL rose to move for a select committee to facts is daily . expected. The report states that the Greek inquire into the salaries and emoluments of offices held d ur i ng . the pleasure of the Crown by membe r s of e ith er H ouse of Par- envoy considers" Pacifico" entitled to about £7OO. The lament voted in the annual estimates, and also into thesalaries question of the claims of the British subjects of lonian and emoluments of judicial officers in the superior courts of island is also settled. Mr. Wyse is ordered to abide by law and equity in the United Kingdom, and into the retiring t h e G ree k envoy ' s ar bi tration, and upon the Greek go pensions allotted to the judges, and also into the expense of vernment execution of the conditions. Admiral Parker is the diplomatic establishments charged on the consolidated fund. After detailing the precedents for the appointment of to give up the captured vessels. such a committee, commencing with the year 1796, down to AUSTRALIA.—Letters from Hobart Town and Port Lord Althorp's committee in 1830, and ending with the military Philip, received on Sunday, bring a few days later intelli inquiry of 1848, he said a committee on civil salaries was now gence. There was no great change in the aspect of busi engaged on the subject, and he had delayed his present motion nets at either place. The whe a t harvest h until he was in a condition to ava il hi mself of i ts valuable at Port Port Philip and was rearded as ab ad und be a n nt. Bankgatherd labours. With respect to the first divisi on o f hi s mot i on, it was for independent members to consider the line that ought bills were selling at, Hobart Town at 2 per cent. premium ; to be drawn with referenceto the remuneration of the principal exchange at Port Philip was 1 per cent. premium. The officers of state. Ile was of opinion that high offices of state mercantile advices from Sydney speak of a speculative ought not to be restricted to men having large private fortunes. business having sprung up in tea, low prices having brought "With reference to the second part of his motion, a very long purchasers into the market; manufactured goods continued lime bad elapsed since there had been an inquiry into the sub sect of judicial salaries. O n th a t h ea d h e wou ld say i f great plentiful and cheap. No want of tonnage existed ; th e reductions were made in higher legal salaries it would be neces- exchange was 1 per cent. premium. easy to extend the same principle of reduction to all. With NATAL.—Advices from Natal to the 11th of January reference to the third division of his motion, that included give on the whole a favourable account of the progress of salaries which formerly used to be defrayed from the civil list; th e colony. Trade with the interior was increasing, and but since the year 1830 they had been paid out of the conso lidated fund, and nineteen yea rs h a d e l apse d s i nce a l terat i onor the Boers in some of their original districts we r e aga i n :revision had been deemed n ecessary . He was of opinion that quietly settling down to farming pursuits. The experi the committee he applied for should search into all cases, and ment of taxing the natives had worked well, and the be prepared to show what establishments ought to be kept up amount of the collections just ended was in money and and wliat abolished or reduced. No member of the govern- cattle £3684. Land had risen in value during the year, silent ought to be a member of that committee, and here he and although there had been no instance of rapid wealth would have gladly paused, had not the amendments of two lion. members (Mr. Di srae li an d M r . H en l ey) rendered i t neces- among the settlers, all had succeeded to a fair extent. sary for him to show that government had neither shrunk from Cotton had not been so much attended to as had been responsibility nor shirked their duty. The noble lord then anticipated ; but this it is said was to be attributed to the proceeded to show that government for many years had been general demand which existed for their farming products. busied in making important reductions. The army expendi- GRIST AND MARIO.—The triumphs which these artistes Lure, in three years, had been reduced by the sum of £502,006; achieved at St. Petersburgh have been marked by the most - the navy by e2,102,0e0; and the ordnance by e7B,ooo—making a total of £3,284,000. In the civil d e p ar t ments a s i m i lar spirit costly presents from the Emperor. This was Grisi's first of retrenchment had been manifested. A strict inquiry had visit to Russia, and it is needless to say that her reception been set on foot in the treasury and home departments, and in each part she performed was of the most enthusiastic the result was, £28,000 in both had been saved to the country, character. She has received testimonials from the Empress while increased efficiency had been attained. The business of as well as from the Emperor of vast value. Among these the treasury was formerly done by 38 persons at aggregate salaries of -e429,000, while in 1850 the same business was done are a wreath for her to wear when playing Norma, f orme d by '0 persons, and their salaries were reduced to £246,000. of leaves in enamel on gold, with the berries composed of Reductions had been made in the customs to the amount of brilliants of the finest water set on gold stems ; a tiara of £64,791, and in th , exc'se and stamps of a quarter of a million brilliants and opals, of which the centre stone is valued at aincelB33. He thought it was essential that the chief officers of a sum exceeding £2OO ; a stomacher of brilliants, rubies, government should be members of the legi s l a t ure , an d t h at t h e separation of the legislative from th e execu ti ve d epartment and other stones of large value; and various ,bracelets, would be a violation of the doctrines of a parliamentary go- brooches, and rings. vernment. He cautioned the house not to take any course FRENCH JEALOUSY AND MURDER.—A girl, named which might militate against the real welfare of the nation. Josephine Dumas, was found, on Tuesday morning week, Mr. DISRAELI rose to move, as an amendment to Lord John lying in her room, in the Rue du Chantre, stabbed in se- Russelbs motion for a committee on public salaries, " That this ven places, two of the wounds being through the heart. house is in possession of all the information requisite to revise Towards five in the morning, a woman who slept in the and regulate public salaries; that parliamentary committees of inquiry, under such circumstances, would only lead to next room heard some noise, but, thinking it was only a delay ; and that it is the duty of the Go vernmen t on t h e i r own quarre l, t oo k no not i ce of the disturbance. A friend of responsibility forthwith to introduce the measures that may be the deceased, named Caroline Baugrand, coming to see necessary for effecting every reduction in the national estab- her about ten o'clock, found the door half open, and the disbments consistent with the efficient discharge of the public body of Josephine lying on the ground, bathed in blood. service." He could not understand why the noble lord came to Parliament instead of proceeding with the reforms he had All that has been known was, that a young man passed been boasting about. Why did his lordship ask the house to the night with the deceased, but was not seen to go out do his work for him ? The course which his lordship was in the morning. None of the property of the murdered taking was most unconstitutional. If the opinion of Ministers girl was touched, which leads to the idea that some feel -was that economical reforms ought to be carried into effect, in of jealousy or revenge must have actuated the mur why did not Ministers propose such reforms ?If their opinion deer. ' . ' was the other way, this motion was nothing but playing with an investigation was immediately commenced, the house. Lord J. Russell had quoted the e xamp l e o f Lord and t w o warran t s , i t i s sa id , h ave b een issued against sus- Althorpe, but Lord Althorpe's committee sat only upon sala- pected parties.—Galignani. ries in the estimates; but the Ministers were urging the house ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION AND SUlClDE.—Yester to consider salaries which they could not deal with without day great sensation was caused in the Cite Wauxhall by passing another act of parliament. It was the duty of Lord J. an attempted assassination and suicide. A young officer Russell to introduce that act if lie thought it necessary. The plea, that there was a delicacy in a minister deciding on his of the army had long entertained a violent passion for a own salary, was not an ar gumen t b u t a sent i men t. H e s h ould young woman li v i ng in the Cite, and hadintimate rela be glad to know how th e y were to o b ta i n more i nformat i on L i ons w i t h h er. T meet her expenses it appears that he than was already before the house; and whether the Govern- committed some faults, which compromised him so se inept intended to cross-examine the judges as to their circuit riously as to cause him to form the resolution of commit expenses, and lawyers as to the amount of fees they made, and whether ambassadors were to be se n t f or f rom G ermany and ling suicide. He wanted the girl to die with him, but she Turkey. He was sorry to st a t e th a t ever s i nce t h e passing of ref u sed. A ccor dingly he yesterday gave her a stupifying - the Reform Bill the house had been gradually losing its control drink, and when she was senseless placed her on the bed. over the public money. The First Lord of the Treasury could, He then carefully closed the doors and windows to pre it he chose to sit down on this subject, get through all that was v e n t the entrance of air, lighted a pan of charcoal, and laid necessary in the course of a single morning far better than the whole committee could d o . Th e most extraordinary thing in himself down by the girl's sid e . Ab ou t th ree - quar t ers o f the great exhibition of 1851 would be the blue book which that an hour afterwards the neighbours heard subdued groans committee would produce. He defended his amendment, issue from the room. This excited their alarm, especially 'which had alarmed the house and the country against a minis. as the officer had been n o ti ce d t o c l ose th e w i n d ow shut terial stratagem. ters at the usual hour for opening them, and as also no On a division the numbers were—For tbe amendment, 15 9; one had been seen to leave the apartment. The commis against it, 250 ; majority against the amendment, 91. Mr. HORSMAN moved the following amendment to Lord J. sary of police having b een sen t f or cause d t h e d oor t o Russell's motio n on salaries :—" That the inquiry be ex t en d e d be 'forced open, and found the man and woman lying on to the incomes of ecclesiastical dignitaries." He stated at the bed apparently dead. Medical assistance was imme some length the inequality of judicial salaries in general, as diately applied to both, and in a few minutes the officer compared with ecclesiastical salaries. He said that not only gave signs of life, and a little later was pronounced out of were the latter much . greater than the former, but the parties danger. At first the remedies applied to the girl had no receiving such ecclesiastical salaries were invariably provided with palacies, which was not the case with legal officials. He effect, but more energetic measures having been resorted stated that the united salaries paid to the whole of the judges to she also recovered. The officer was taken into custody did not amount to as much as the salaries of four of oar En- on a charge of attempted assassination.—lbid. glish prelates. He further said that there was not a functionary A CASE FOR TILE TRACTARIANS. Wonders will in England or the colonies, with the exception of the Lord never cease in Paris. A discovery which has recently of London, Chancellor, w or even equal to two-thirds hose income exceeded the income of the Bisho been : Wade of an extraordin ar y i n di v id ua l, living at the p of our archbishops. He contended that although the incomes Barriere d'Eufe, and who proclaims himself to the world of ecclesiastics were derived from the Church fund, still they as the heir and successor to Jesus Christ, has created the 'were governed by acts of Parliament, and therefore ought to be greatest curiosity among the miracle hunters of our Included in the motion introduced by the noble lord at the capital. This man is a peasant of the name of Perimond, head of the Government. The proposition he considered a reasonable one, and he hoped the house would not reject it. about forty-five years of age, of simple and unpretending Sir G. GautAhought that the comparisons instituted by Mr. manners and homely speech. He is, however, manifestly Eorsman were most unjust ; but without going into the subject under some extraordinary magnetic influence, for he has itself he would ask the house to negative the amendment, on cured by the effect of his touch alone many hundreds of the ground that it tended to encumber the motion, andthereby persons who have been to visit him. He receives all to defeat its object. On a division, the numbers were—For the strangers who seek him with the greatest simplicity, dis imendment, 05 .; against it, 208 ; majority against the amend 'Dent, 113. claims any credit for the wo n d rous m i rac l es h e per f orme d, The original motion was then agreed to without going to a merely repeating the assuran c e o f hi s a pp o i n t men t b y division. our Saviour, who appeared to him in a dream to go forth to the world and testify to the truth of the gospel. He is of short stature, and full expressive countenance. His hair, parted on the forehead, descends on either side of his temples. There would be nothing remarkable about the person of the man, which has given rise to the wilful lie or the unhappy delusion, whichever it may be, that he thus openly advances—were it not for the extraordinary stigmates on his hands and feet, and the deep cicatrice in his side, whence during the whole of passion week have issued large drops of blood ; many people worthy of belief have told me that there is no delusion about this. The hands and feet are pierced through and through, and the wound in the side is two inches long and very deep; that they have seen the blood ooze from these wounds slowly and drop by drop for hours together during the past week, and that during this time Perimond remains exhausted on his bed, lying as it were in a trance, without food or nou rishment, and to all appearance dead. After sunset he revives, the bleeding ceases, be recovers his senses, par takes of some slight refreshment, and passes the whole night in prayer ! His dress consists of a short tunic of white linen reaching to the knee, with long full trousers of the same. On his head he wears a white linen turban, of the Jewish form. He carries no ornament on his per son, save a gold clasp, which fastens a band to which his waist is confined. The police have been most active in causing investigations to be made into the history and antecedents of the man ; but as yet nothing has been dis covered which can in any way serve as an excusil for molesting him. All that is known, is the fact of his having recently arrived from Grenoble, where he had I lived a holy and religious life, much beloved by the old: peasant wan who had reared him, and who, even to i SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOM SPRING MEETING. —This meeting commenced on Thursday, on the Downs, favourably as regards sport ; but an unfortunate occurred while the horses were run ning for the principal event. The platforms of a tempo rary stand, on the right of the grand stand, fell in with a tremendous crash, but no lives were lost; four or five persons were carried off with fractured limbs, and several others were severely injured. Mr. Etwall's Bushranger won the Trial Stakes; Mr. Stephens's Knight of Gwynne second.—Duke of Richmond's Buckhound won the Two year-old Stakes ; Mr. Payne's Catalpa second.—Colonel Anson's Backbiter won the Great Metropolitan Stakes ; Major Pitt's Mounseer second.—Sir G. Heathcote's colt by Gladiator won the Railway. Stakes; Mr. Sadd's Salute second.—Mr. Cassidy's Diligence won the Surrey Hunt stakes; Mr. Drew's Master Murray second.—Friday : Johnny Oakes won the Metropolitan Handicap; Maria Day second ; Rachael third. MILITARY PEDESTRIANISM.—On Saturday a running snatch took place in the Long Walk, Windsor, between Lieutenant the Hon. Mr. Astley, of the 2d battalion of Scots Fusileer Guards, and W. Pack, a noted runner in the band of the Ist Life Guards. The distance was 150 yards, and Mr. Astley backed himself at a sovereign a yard to win, although the odds were four to three on the Life Guardsman. Pack, at starting, got the advantage of about two yards, but at about half the distenee they were abreast of each other. Lieut. Astley then gradually got _ahead of his opponent, and won by three yards, amid ireat choering, 'FOREIGN AND 3LONIAL. The Government of India have at length resolved on adopting a comprehensive scheme of national education. The Italian papers contain long accounts of the Pope's journey. The Ministers left Rome on the sth to meet his Holiness at Terracina. The colonists at the Cape have had rreat rejoicings to celebrate the removal of the obnoxious decision as to con victs. A public illumination was held, and many other festivities. TURKEY.—The Sultan is adding a Christian battalion to each of his regiments. Hitherto, Christians have not been allowed to enter the Turkish army. The enrolment is quite voluntary. _ _ _ __ _ _ _ Infra-mural interments are about to be forbidden within the State of New York (by a legislative act), under cer tain penalties of fine and imprisonment. Thus does Jo. nathan go a-head of the old country in matters of civilisa tion. In Malta, the Roman Catholic Church has been pro claimed the dominant religion. The Bishop of Gibraltar protested against it. This comes of having a Roman Ca tholic governor, who admits Jesuit refugees and expels all others. Lieut. Hardman, of her Majesty's ship Hogue, at Lis bon, put a loaded pistol to his mouth with the intention of killing himself. The ball struck his teeth, glanced up wards, and came out at the eye, which it destroyed. He is recovering. Fresh disorders broke out on Thursday in the Theatre at Rouen during the representation of " Tartuffe," but were calmed without the intervention of the military. The theatre has been closed by the authorities in conse quenee of the disturbances. Advices from the Cape of Good Hope mention the com plete destruction by fire of the British ship Ocean Queen, 800 tons burthen, on her way to Suez. The crew left her in four boats, two of which have not been heard of. The captain and a party of ten were picked up by the French ship Gabriel, and landed at the Cape. In Corsica, a bride and bridegroom were recently struck by lightning. The brother of the bride, on seeing the body of his sister, supposed her death was caused by the hand of a bandit chief, whose hand she had refused, proceeded instantly in search of him. He ultimately found him, fired, and wounded him. The band retaliated, and several parties were injured. STATE OF FRANCE.—Lord Ashley, in a letter to his constituents at Bath, dated from Paris, April 6th, says that he would be detained there by the illness of his daughter, and adds, " The state of the public mind here, and the uncertain continuance of tranquillity, render it almost impossible for me, with any degree of assurance, to leave my family to find their way home alone." NEW ZEALAND.—The New Zealand letters to the 28th of December state that emigration to California had not abated. The conduct of Governor Grey in the adminis tration of affairs was not generally approved. Under the combined influence, therefore, of a diminishing popula tion and some political irritation trade was in a declining state. Letters from Rome of the 2d instant, state that the tri umphal arch erected at Balletria in honour of the Pope's return, had been burned during the night. The Austrian General in command at Bologna had adopted measures of extraordinary precaution, which are ascribed to indi cations of hostile feeling to the Austrians by the people of Bologna. Late advices received from Mr. Layard, at Nimroud, state, that in a part of the building not far distant from that containingithe throne the whole of the culinary ap paratus of the Monarch of Assyria has been discovered. It consists, among other things, of an immense brazen caldron, and more than 100 dishes, &c., of the same metal. No golden utensils nave, however, yet come to We received on Saturday morning, by the new packet. ship Vanguard, Captain Nortcn, accounts from New York to the 22d ultimo inclusive; being two days later than our advises by the last steamer. The Vanguard arrived in the channel after a run of about seventeen days, but subse quently unfavourable winds delayed her entrance into the river until Friday night. Our accounts are not of special importance. THE LIVERPOOL STAN-DAR-IL CLERICAL INIELLIGENCE. the hour of her. death, declared to have found him one morning lying beneath a hedge near her cottage. No trace of his parentage had ever been discovered. He never stirs •abroad, and discourages all meetings and assemblies at his house ; therefore, the authorities of Paris have nought to do in his case. Several physicians of eminence have already been to visit him, but none have as yet been able to solve the mystery of the long fast and bleeding. Dr. C—, the great anatomist, after remaining two hours in his room last Friday, left in despair, declaring with an oath, " that the juggle was too well managed for discovery ;" and, therefore, the mystery, like that of the ecstatic virgins of the Tyrol, remains a mystery still.—Atlas Correspondent. The Rev. James Thomas Campbell has resigned the rectory of Tilston, in the county of Chester.. The Rev. Richard Bendyshe has been licensed to the stipendiary curacy of 'Warmingham, in the county of Chester, on the nomination of the Rev. George Clayton, the rector. VACANCIES.—A minor canonry and the precentorship of Chester Cathedral, by the death of the Rev. Joseph Eaton; also the rectory of Handley, in the county of Chester, and of St. Michael, in the city of Chester, by the same. IRELAND. CONSECRATION.—On Thursday last the Bishop of Chester consecrated the new church of Godley-cum-New ton Green, by the name of St. John the Baptist, and the yard surrounding it as a cemetery. The township of Godley, and part of Newton township, in the parish of Mottram, in Longdendale, in the county of Chester, were constituted a separate ecclesiastical district by an order in council, pursuant to a scheme of the Ecclesiastical Com missioners, under the Act of 6 and 7 Victoria, commonly called Sir R. Peel's Act ; and by the consecration of the church the district has become a separate parish for all ecclesiastical purposes. The church is a neat and com modious structure, built of stone, from designs by Mr. Shellard, the architect, of Manchester, and contains, in the body 543 sittings, of which 157 are free, with a gallery in which are 253 free seats for children, and seven for adults. The Bishop preached an eloquent sermon on the occasion, in aid of the building fund. A small estate in Ireland has been sold under the In cumbered Estates Bill, for one-and-a-half year's pur. chase. The rental was £4OO, and the estate sold for £6OO. WAR TO THE KNIFE.—The mayor of Clonmel has declined to meet, at dinner, Sir Robert Kane, the presi dent of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland, because those institutions have not thesanction of the Romish hierarchy. A new church has been opened at Sandymount, one of the marine suburbs of Dublin, which has been erected entirely at the expense of Mr. Sidney Herbert, to whom the property about there all belongs. The church cost in its erection upwards of £7OOO. HORRIBLE MURDERS.—One evening last week, Arthur O'Donnell, Esq., of Knock, Clare, was waylaid and bru tally murdered, near his own house, by some men with a hatchet.—The same night, and not far from the same place, the herdsman of Mr. Scanlan, was waylaid in the wood, and his throat was cut. Between Monday and Tuesday 326 emigrants embarked at the port of Limerick for Quebec and New York. There are 1,300 passengers waiting at Waterford for vessels to convey them to America. On Tuesday five vessels laden with emigrants left Cork for America, and hundreds leave the various Irish ports weekly by steamer via Liverpool for America. Mr. John O'Connell has addressed an extremely affect ing letter to the " Repealers of Ireland," announcing his fixed resolve to close the doors of Conciliation-hall, and retire into private life, in the brief space of one fortnight, unless in the mean time the people evince a due apprecia tion of his services, past and present, by a liberal contri bution to replenish the exhausted coffers of the Burgh quay treasury. A riot took place on Wednesday, among the female inmates of the Dublin workhouse, a number of whom made a desperate attack at dinner time on the assistant master and several other masters of the house. The assistant-master luckily escaped from their clutches, but two of the ward-masters were very roughly handled by these amazons, twelve of whom have since been com mitted to prison. The Fermanagh Mail says, that on Thursday week, a man called at a farm house near Kilishandra, and obtained leave to light his pipe. As he was leaving the house the wind blew a few sparks from his pipe on to the thatch, which instantly caught fire, and the house and outbuild ings were entirely consumed in spite of the efforts of the neighbours who immediately assembled, and attempted to extinguish the flames. THE POLITICAL " EXILES."—In the list of guardians of the Limerick Protestant Orphan Society appointed for the ensuing year, at the annual meeting last week, appears the name of Mr. William Smith O'Brien. It was but a few months since that the same gentleman was re-elected a member of a literary institution established at Limerick, and his health toasted " with all the honours" in the presence of an assemblage composed of men of every possible creed, political or religious. THE WRECK OF THE JOHN R. SKIDBY.—We have received several communications on the above melancholy event, contradicting in the strongest language the repre sentation made by the master of the vessel. However, as the facts will in a day or two undergo a thorough In vestigation before the magistrates, we refrain from enter ing into particulars. We may add, that we have seen in the Dublin Evening Mail newspaper of the 10th instant, a letter from a highly respectable magistrate of the county of Wexford, confirming the communications above alluded to, and bearing testimony to the humane and ex emplary character of the peasantry in that part of Ireland. SALES UNDER TIA ENCUMBERED ESTATES-ACT.— Four sales of small properties were on Tuesday effected before the commissioners. The first was in the nature of POLITICAL MISCELLANY. a perpetual annuity of £2OO per annum on lands in the — county of Wexford, and was sold for £2,900, or 141 Mr. Cardwell, M.P., had an interview with E ar l G re y years' purchase. The second was a small property in the on Wednesday, at the Colonial Office. county of Clare, held on lease for ever, the rental The Weekly Chronicle says, that several members of amounting to but £24 per annum, or about thirteen the Peel party, including Sir J. Young, Mr. G. Smythe, years' purchase. The third was of a simple estate in the Mr. Sidney Herbert, and Sir F. Thesiger have announced county of Cavan, producing a rental of £llO per annum, their adherence to Lord Stanley. sotd for £2,550, or twenty-three years' purchase. The In support of Mr. Hume's proposed amendment, last was a small property, in Monaghan, of about £5O respecting the importation of free labourers from Africa per annum, which sold for £BlO, or little over 16 years' into the West India Islands, the Times has a powerful purchase. representation of the hardships to which the planters are A SCENE IN THE DUBLIN TOWN COUNCIL—At a exposed. meeting of the Dublin Town Council last week, whilst The Morning Chronicle has a long-winded article on the Mayor was making an observation, Mr. Councillor Reform in the Colonies, the upshot of which is the ex- Walker said : That is not true. I said no such thing.— oression of its belief that " under a more liberal colonial Mr. Reynolds (the Mayor) : Sit down; sir,—Mr. Walker : system, these ancient strongholds of monopolyare destined Read the resolution correctly.—Mr. Sheridan : It is not to exhibit the brightest triumphs of free-trade." worth your lordship's while to explain matters any fur- Lord Stanley has declined to act with Mr. Cayley in an ther. (Confusion.)—Mr. Reynolds : This is a wholesale effort to abolish the malt tax, as his lordship " does not slander.—Mr. Walker : It is not a more wholesale slander see how we can remit a duty, involving £4,500,000, with than you are in the habit of indulging in, for you earn out some means being taken to meet the consequent defi your bread b 3 scolding. (Uproar.)—Mr. Reynolds : Sit ciency in the revenue." down, sir. If you use a phrase insulti ng t o me aga i n — The Morning Post of Wednesd a y sa y s , i n re f erence to Mr. Walker : I repudiate your accusation, sir.—Mr. the promised motion of Mr. Grantley Berkeley for an Reynolds : I require you to sit down; and I give you affirmation of the expediency of an Bs. duty on foreign notice, that if in the discharge of my duty as Lord Mayor corn, "as the first directblow that has yet been struck of this city, to preserve order in this court (for it is a in parliament at the free-trade quackery, we are not sorry, court), I cannot do so save by putting you out of this upon the whole, that the assault should come from the room byf orce, I will do it. (Cheers and uproar.)—Mr. Whig party." Walker :It is very easy for you to say you will do this, The Times of Tuesday is in a congratulatory vein, on but you shall not—Mr. Reynolds : Will you sit down, the restoration of official relations between the courts of sir ?—Alderman Hudson : It is monstrous to hear such Great Britain and Spain ;—" we" having administered "a language applied to an individual who is denied the privi- rap on the knuckles to an intrusive adversary." Here is lege of a reply. Such conduct in a chairman is quite a wonderful change in the feelings of national honour, and unprecedented. (Hear, hear.)—Mr. Reynolds : I request stranger confusion to the senses ;—it formerly being held you will sit down. I require you to resume your seat. that the "rap" consisted in our liberal representative be (Confusion.)—Mr. Walker : I require you, sir, to take ing in spirit kicked out of Madrid I my denial of all you have said with regard to me. What COUNTY COURTS.—In the majority of 144 for the you have stated with regard to the weights and measures second reading of the County Courts Extension Bill were is not in the notice.—Mr. Dunne : It is.—Mr. Walker: the Marquis of Blandford, J. Bright, William Brown, What does this fellow know about it ?—Mr. Delany : Richard Cobden, W. T. Egerton, W. Evart, T. Fellow, indeed—a town councillor called a fellow I— M. Gibson, C. Greenall, J. Heald, A. Henry, J. Hey- Several Voices : Fellow ! fellow !—Mr. Reynolds : I wood, L. Heyworth, J. Hornby, J. Hume, J. Kershaw, require you, Mr. Walker, to apologise to the council and Lord J. Manners, J. W. Patten, G. Sandars, Colonel Mr. Dunne.—Alderman Keshan : There is not in this Sibthorp, R. A. Thicknesse, T. Thorneley, Sir Joshua assembly a more respectable man than Mr. Dunne.—Mr. Walmsley, and J. Hornby. In the minority of 67 (of Walker: I will apologise to the gentleman himself, but which no fewer than thirty-two were government place not to the council.—Alderman Moran : This is an insult men) were J. Brotherton, T. Greene, C. Newdegate, J. to the whole assembly.—Mr. Walker: It is very unmanly Wilson, &c. Neither Mr. Cardwell nor Sir. T. Birch thus to assail one man :—Alderman Hudson : The Lord were present, as they should h ave b een . , Mayor, who complains of others being out of order, is WINDOW TAx.—The foll ow i ng gen tl emen voted on himself the most disorderly person in the room.—Mr. Tuesday night, in the minority of 77 for the repeal of the Reynolds : I require you to sit down, and withdraw your window tax :—Messrs. H. A. A g lio n by, J o h n B r i g h t, R. words.—Alderman Hudson : I will withdraw the words, Cobden, W. Ewart, W. J. Fox, Right Hon. T. M. Gib because I must bow to the chair, no matter what opinion son, G. Greenall, John Green, C. P. Grenfell, Lord R. I may entertain in reference to the conduct of the person Grosvenor, James Heald, Alexander Henry, L. Hey by whom it is filled.—Mr. Reynolds : I require Mr. worth, J. Kershaw, George Sandars, W. Scholefield, J. Walker to apologise publicly to the council and Mr. B. Smith, Hon. E. Stanley, Lord D. Stuart, R. A. Dunne.—Mr. Walker : I will apologise to Mr. Dunne, Thicknesse, Colonel Thompson, F. Tollemache, Lord because, being mistaken, he has misstated a fact.—Mr. Duncan, and J. Hume. The following gentlemen voted Reynolds : Your words are offensive to the council.— in the majority of 80:—Messrs. M. Baines, J. Brother- Mr. Walker : It is going too far to ask me to apologise ton, W. Brown, J. Heywood, J. Parker, J. Pilkington, to them.—Mr. Reynolds : If you use offensive words and T. Thorne's-. towards me, you will do so at your peril.—Mr. Lambert WHAT DOES THE WINDOW-TAX PAY FOR ?—No doubt again interposed to terminate the discussion, but Mr. the window-tax is but one of many which we must all of us Reynolds persisted in obliging Mr. Walker to apologise be anxious to see removed—the question remains which is to the council.—Mr. Walker then said, that, in com- entitled to the preference. For many reasons the window pliance with the wishes of some friends near him, he tax is entitled to be reckoned amongst the first for aboli would withdraw the expressions —Mr. Reynolds: As tion—if it does not in point of fact stand clearly and indis regards the council ?—Mr. Walker :—As regards the— putably first upon the list. B u t, s a y s Si r Ch ar l es W o od, world. "Where' can I get the money which will make up the de ficit caused by the removal of a tax of this amount ?" The answer is ready in a form which will meet Ministers over and over again. The cost of the African squadron, useless and mad as the expenditure is, would more than cover half of the deficiency • for the other half Lord Dun can points to the Woods said Forests, and asserts that if this property were properly managed there would be no pinch felt in the Exchequer if the window-tax were abo lished to-morrow. Let every one who receives the little half-yearly notice of the tax-collector consider that he is but called upon to pay his contribution to meet the ex penses of the insane blockade of the African coast and of the mismanagement of the Crown Estates.—Times. GOVERNMENT CONVICTED OF FALSIFYING ACCOUNTS. —We were about to offer a few remarks, as we have here tofore done, on the monthly paper issued, entitled " Ac counts relating to Trade and Navigation." The publi cation of this month. issued yesterday, affords proofs of the same character with those we have before adduced— that our import trade, or purchases from foreign countries, is increasing much more rapidly than our export trade, or sales to them. But a few minutes' examination convin ced us that it was useless to rest any argument on this publication until we were first satisfied of the truth and authenticity of its statements. Our doubts as to its truth arose in this way :—We laid, as we have been accustomed to do, the accounts of yesterday alongside of the accounts issued two years ago. The one is entitled " Accounts relating to Trade and Navigation, month ended March 5, 1848." The other, just now published, is entitled " Ac counts relating to Trade and Navigation, month ended March 5, 1850." This latter account compares the 1850 imports and exports with those in the same month in 1848 and 1849. So that, as we had the year 1848 in both papers, we were entitled to expect, as to that year, an agreement between the two accounts. But they do not agree, Of this we will give a few instances. In the ac count published in 1848, the exports of butter in the month ending sth March, are stated to have been of the declared value of £7427. But in the account published ill 1850, we find the exports of butter in the month ending sth March, 1848, set down as of the declared value of £8236. In the account published in 1848, the exports of coals and cuim are set down as of the declared value of £68,107.. In the account published in 1850, coals and cu/m, in the month ending sth March, 1848, are set down at £76,923. In the account published in 1848, iron and steel exported appear of the declared value of £327,886. In the account published in 1850, iron and steel exported in the month ending sth March, 1848, are set down at the declared value of £440,717. We frankly confess that these strange discrepancies perplex us. We know not what such accounts are worth. It seems a waste of time to argue upon statements which contradict and discredit each other !—Herald of Saturday. GIVE FREE TRADE A FAIR TRIAL—To the modern rulers of the British nation, to the constituents of the majority of the House of Commons, to ba cheap and to sell dear is the great object of ambition. They have gained the first; let them see whetjor they will secure the last: Let them see whether, amidst the ruin of the agricultural interest, and the declining circumstances of all trades, which are exposed to the effects of foreign competition, they, the sellers of commodities, will make their fortunes. If they do, it will be a new era in soci ety; for it will be Me is which the trading class moms The Times intimates that the Archbishop of Canterbury will hold a special visitation in the diocese of Exeter, in his rapacity of metropolitan, for the purpose of instituting Mr. Gorham. On Saturday week the parishioners of St. Sidwell's pa rish, Exeter, presented to their minister, the Rev. F. Courtenay, a library table, a glastonbury chair and silk robe, as a token of their esteem and gratitude. Dr. Wiseman has distinctly denied that he ever used the following words attributed to him by the Morning Herald—" They, the great lights of Tractarianism, are of use to us while they retain their positions, but they are of little use when they actually come over." Last week E. B. St. Aubyn, Esq. Mayor of Devonport, laid the foundation stone of St. Mary's Church, when he stated that it was the third church cemmenced in the town within the last nine months, and he trusted a fourth would be begun before the twelvemonths had expired. ROYAL ANTI-TRACTARIANISM.—We hear that a change in the staff appointed to superintend the education of the youthful heir to the throne of these kingdoms is likely, in consequence of the determination of her most gracious Majesty and her royal Consort to prevent the indoctrinating the mind of youthful royalty with those exaggerated Church principles (so called) which have, in times gone by, been attended with mournful consequences. —Church and State Gazette. TAXES : HOW TO LESSEN THEM CONSIDERABLY. • STRONG ARGUMENTS AND STARTLING FACTS WHICH CANNOT BE CONTRADICTED.—The numerous and accu mulated profits which real consumers have to pay for various articles, afford a good opportunity of laying bare the position of some houses compared with others; and it is our purpose to elucidate how and why it is—convinced that we shall be enabled to throw a strong light on this hitherto neglected subject, and prove the enormous taxation thus laid on domestic expenditure. In order to hold this system up to public investigation, we shall endeavour to show, in the first place, simply the number and extent of the profits that all classes are really burthened with i —lst, p ro fit arises from ma nufacturers buying articles in the raw state ; 2nd, profit arises from merchants purchasing from the manufacturers ; 3rd, profit arises from London or wholesale houses buying from our merchants; 4th, profit arises from small retailers having - to purchase from wholesale houses; sth, profit arises from small tradesmen's exorbitant charges to the consumer! Now, upon a just calculation, these five profits amoun t t o a t least 50 per cent., or ten shillings in every twenty! thus involving a prin ciple so extravagant to the pockets, that it needs only to be enquired into to be thoroughly understood. But as there is no rule without an exception, we will next allude to one establishment where the artizan can get his cloth ing at first cost, and where the proprietor has no interme diate profits to pay; need we say that' we allude to B. HYAM, national tailor and clothier, 63, I,6rd-street, Liverpool. He manufactures extensively for his ofvn branches in every stage, from the raw material to the mat superbly finished coat, at "one cost" and at " one prof ?' This, then, accounts for his vast success and the extraordinary low prices at which he can afford to sell his clothing/in fact, it is well known by the public that he sells the mostuperior description of garments lower, infinitely lower, thfin any other smaller establishment charge for interior. Nov' we ask the reader a simple question —Does it not sound toeason that HYAM has advantages for supplying the million 4Vper cent. lower than others? Certainly he has ! and this he/anquestionably does—thus saving the pockets of all, more han any person could imagine, did they not dive into the mi tine of the mysteries of clothing. Ag a i n , HYAM having :weir of the largest tailoring and clothing esta blishments in the Uhited Kingdom, viz. :—London, 36, Grace church-street; Liv rpool, 63 and 65, Lord-street; Manchester, 26, Market-street • Birmingham, 23, New-street; Glasgow, 48, Argyll-street ; E ter, 193, High-street; London, 86, Oxford street ,• Dublin, 0, Dame-street ; Bri s tol, 4 2, Wi ne - s t ree t ; Bristol, 6, Uni street; Leeds, 42, Briggate; Hu11,17, Market place—and all ' active operation, it makes it worth his while to manufactur his own goods of every description ; thus com bining in hi elf the true title of manufacturer, merchant, wholesale an retail vendor for his own immense and widely spreading to les of commerce. Another point of importance we next tak p: a tradsman in a gigantic line of business like HYAM, ven not possessing the advantages above stated, can even the sell cheaper than small shopkeepers. They must have a shop, shopmen, gas, rent, and numerous other expenses incidental t business, which nearly amount to as much as a larger shop eper (such as Hyam), whose returns are probably a hundred mes as much, Again, look at the immense expe rience, the sound judgment, and the unbounded capital a pro- prietor of twelve such mammoth establishments must possess in making up goods, to .a small tradesman, who only has to make a handful at once; why, it is like comparing a molehill to a mountain. Whilst purchasers at " small" shops must have " small" choice to select from, " small" chance of getting suited, and a much " smaller" one of obtaining satis faction. Let all, therefore, who would only pay "one profit," GO TO HYAM'S. Those who wish to throw, money away, cer tainly should go to small tradesmen; but it is the public's interest to patronise an establishment raised for the good of the inhabitants of this populous district, and, in return, the proprietor pledges himself to work his talents and immense resources for their benefit, and never - forsake the cause and cnstomers who have proclaimed him the " natimal iailor and clo'thig 9, great 13ritaill." The London papers mention a rumour that the Rev. W. Maskell, M.A., of University College, Oxford, now domestic and formerly examining chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Exeter, and who took part in the celebrated examination of Mr. Gorham before the bishop, has deci ded on resigning his living at Mary Church, Devon, and joining the Church of Rome.—The report, however, seems to be merely premature, for the reverend gentleman says in a letter just published—" I have resigned my cure of souls, because I have no doctrines and no faith to teach as certainly the faith and doctrines of the English Church; but, f r a time at least, I leave not her communion. Brief time it may be : One alone can tell." THE GORHAM CASE.—Several clergymen of the dio cese of Exeter have put their names to a document, in which they state that the " civil power ha?, without the consent of the synod (commonly called convocation), created the judicial committee of the privy council to be a supreme court of ultimate appeal in controversies," and go on to " repudiate the opinion, that the civil power of this realm hath any power to appoint a lay court of appeal in matters affecting the church's faith or doctrine," forasmuch as the holy catholic church has ever taught, without any sort of uncertainty, hypothesis, reservation, contingency, or doubt, the gift of regeneration in all cases bestowed upon, in, and by the sacrament of holy baptism. The number of clergy in the archdeaconry of Exeter, who have declared their adherence, is upwards of 140, of whom 64 have also signed the above protest. riches in consequence of the ruin of their customers. On this account there are protectionists who deprecate any attempt to displace the government at this time, or force upon a reluctant majority in the House of Commons a change in the present commercial policy of the country. It is said that free trade, though it has been in operation for three years and a half, has not had a fair trial ; the Irish famine, the failure of £15,000,000 worth of produce out of £30,000,000 in a single year, did all the mischief. Be it so. Let free trade have a fair trial. Let the shop keepers see what benefit they are likely practically to gain by the ruin of their customers. They have the government in their hands, because they have the ap pointment of a majority in the House of Commons. The agricultural interest, the colonies, the shipping interest, the small manufacturing interests are to all practical pur poses disfranchised. Let the trading classes, then, feel the effects of their own measures. These will be such that they cannot continue. Ere long a change of policy, and probably of rules, will be forced upon government by the universal cry of suffering. But let them recollect that it is their measures which are now on their trial ; that theirs will be the responsibility if they fall ; and that if the empire is dismembered, and the national indepen dence lost. theirs will be the present loss, and theirs the eternal infamy.--Blackwood. COURT AND FASHION. The request to her Majesty to permit the attendance of the Prince of Wales, with his Royal father, at a festival to celebrate the successful progress of the Britannia Bridge, has been declined on account of the Queen's " in teresting situation," so far as regards the Prince Consort, and the youth of the Heir Apparent to the Crown. The ex-King and Queen of the French are on a visit to Brighton. Tie Oriental Club entertained Lord Gough, on Tues. day, together with a select party invited to meet the gal lant viscount, at their mansion, in Hanover-square. The ex-King of the French, Louis Philippe, has just made a present of a valuable painting, on china, to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The painting was con veyed direct from Boulogne to Windsor Castle. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The half-yearly meeting of the South-Eastern Railway Company was held in London, on Wednesday. The chief business was the election of three auditors—Messrs. Browne, Coles Childe, and Morgan being appointed. The name of the chairman, Mr. M`Gregor, was received with much applause at the close of the meeting. RAILWAY INCIDENT.—A passenger train has had a narrow escape on the line between Dereham and Wy mondham. The driver saw an obstruction in a cutting as he approached it; the man blew his whatle, but no no tice was taken; fortunately, the train was stopped in time to prevent a collision. It was then found that a horse and cart were on the rails : in the cart lay a man insensi bly drunk ! It is not known how the horse got on to the line. The carter will be prosecuted. The Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway came before the Master in Chancery, Richards, Esq., on Thursday. Out of the £40,000 deposits raised upon 20,000 shares there remained in hand a balance of two pounds, after "paying the preliminary expenses. There remain about £3,000 assets in the hands of the. Accour,t ant-General, and against that sum are to be set claims to the amount of nearly £6,000. The Northamptonshire Banking Company claim £3,300, the secretary £lOOO, and the solicitor £5OO. LANCASHIRE and YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—The Tithe barn-street station of this company, at Liverpool, is to be opened for public traffic on the Ist of May. The works were commenced about ten months ago, and are now nearly completed. It is stated that upwards of 500 houses were pulled down to make room for the station. There are five lines of rails to accommodate the traffic of three companies —namely, the East Lancashire, the Lancashire and Yorkshire, and the Liverpool and Southport. The passenger station is covered in by two iron roofs, one of them extending 640 feet in length, and being 136 feet span. The other roof is 80 feet in span and 160 feet in length. The rails are 30 feet above the level of the street, and by means of powerful machinery the goods waggons are raised on the line and lowered to the street in order to facilitate the loading andimloading. ASSIZE MISCELLANY. On Tuesday, at the Chester assizes, there were two cases of perjury which had been committed in the county court recently established there. The prisoners in both cases were found guilty. _ Henry New, convicted of uttering at Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, forged Bank of England and Old Aber gavenny and Monmouth bank notes, has been sentenced to transportation for life. At BOdmin Assizes, a farmer, named Hardy, was trans ported for life, for sending a threatening letter to the pro prietor of a farm, warning him not to let it to any of his family, on pain of ineendiarism. Ercianuef Barnet, charged with the attempt to poison seven persons at Cheltenham, (two of whom died) has been acquitted, no arsenic being traced to the prisoner's possession, and no motive whatever being assigned for so diabolical a crime. At the Norfolk Assizes, on Tuesday, John Humble thorpe, aged 21, was tried for shooting at Susan Ling wood, with intent to murder her, and was acquitted. The prisoner was a rejected lover, and fired a bullet into the bed-room of the object of his affections. William Morgan, convicted of three distinct utterings of farged bank notes of the Monmouthshire bank, on the 22nd September last, at Bristol, with intent to defraud James Pillers, Charles Taylor, and Charles R. Stock, has been sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. Two boys, sixteen years old, have been convicted, at the Taunton assizes, of highway robbery, and sentenced to fifteen year's transportation. They had agreed to rob a farmer, and buy a pair of pistols with the proceeds, with which they were to go out regularly on the highway. Such are the fruits of Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard representations at our theatres. At Warwick, on Thursday, Abraham Lee, quite a youth, was charged with firing a pistol at Ellen Grindall, daughter of an innkeeper, at Birmingham, who had re jected him as a suitor. The prosecution was got up loosely, and the evidence shortly given, evidently with a view to acquittal ; but the jury, to the astonishment of Mr. Baron Parke, returned a verdict of guilty : and, in reply to an observation of the learned judge, said, " We mean what we have done." A CITY WITHOUT CRIME OR DISPUTE.—At York City Assizes the humourous Baron Alderson delivered the fol lowing laconic charge to the Grand Jury :—" Gentlemen of the grand inquest, there is no necessity for me to give you my charge, because there is no charge against any body; and it is therefore useless for me to explain tha law which you will not be called upon to put in force. It is a very creditable matter to you all, and I hope you will long continue to enjoy the praise of being the town with out a crime and without a dispute." CONSPIRACY TO EXTORT MONEY.—At Warwick, last week, Richard Williams and Sarah Cook were indicted for having conspired to extort money and a valuable secu rity from Richard Tew, by falsely charging him with having violated the said Sarah Cook. Sarah Cook, who is nineteen years old, was the sole servant of Richard Tew, a retired farmer of small property, aged 76. It ap pears that between this old man and Sarah Cook many improprieties had passed. One day, when some of these disgusting familiarities were in progress, Williams, who it would seem had been secreted in the house with the knowledge and connivance of Sarah, burst into the room, and the two accused the old man of the crime above indicated. Williams said he would have him taken into custody immediately and hanged or transported if he did not give him a £lOO. The old man, whose income did not amount to £lOO a-year, terrified, gave Williams all the money he had, amounting to seven sovereigns. Williams, however, still declared that he would give him into custody unless he gave him a promissory note on stamp for £93 more. This was done. Sufficient evidence was given to show that the whole thing had been con trived between Williams and Sarah Cook, though the old man's wicked inclinations had undoubtedly precipitated him into the trap. The prisoners were found guilty, and Williams was sentenced to ten years' transportation. Sarah Cook, who was believed to have been a tool of Williams, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. Jit tstrtrt Relus. The inhabitants of Wigan, Prescot, and other places, have met to oppose the Liverpool Cattle Markets Bill. More than a hundred men have turned out from the collieries at Rainford on account of a dispute about wages. A sum of forty pounds has been presented to the Ches ter Infirmary by the officers of the garrison, being the amount realised by a late amateur entertainment at the Theatre-Royal. _ _ On Friday night by the snapping of a chain at Nightin gale's colliery, Worsley, two married men, with families, were dashed to the bottom of the pit, a depth of 150 yards, and killed. A gentleman of eminence in Manchester has, for a long time past, been annoyed by threatening letters, which have latterly been of a nature to cause hi m ser i ous dis tress. By a well-contrived scheme the writer was lately captured as he posted one of the letters. The delinquent is an attorney of some standing in Manchester. On Wednesday week a yo ung man o f S tockport, w h o had an appointment on that morning to be married to Mary Anne Houseley, after drinking brandy at various public houses, and remarking how disappointed the wed ding-people would be. went to his bedroom, wrote a letter to his brother, and then blew out his brains with a pistol which he had that morning purchased for the express pur pose. He directed his brother to tell Mary Houseley that he died for her, but the reason would die with him. THE REv. DR. NOLAN.—This divine, whose name was brought before the public at our assizes, preached on Sun day week at Ducie Chapel, Manchester, to crowded con gregations. He made several allusions to the charges innocence, which him, and solemnly protested his which he call e d God to witness. The Lancashire Con gregational Union has officially expelled the rev. gentle man from the body, and has also cut off his congregation from the Association. Dr. Nolan declined to submit his conduct to the Union unless with restrictions, which they considered quite unreasonable. THE LATESACRILEGE IN THE WESTMINSTER FAMILY'S seemed to The VAULT AT ECCLESTON. — On the 18 th ult. there came to Eccleston three well-dressed women, whoinquired for the parish clerk, and told him they had a great wish to see ac dlthroughemrkirecoitinthe much, interior icehd wb ietihnogf theirv th e e r y b w e i a s beautiful particular t e i s f , u l a little nd i n thteie their c ly hurc i hn.quiries about the vault, and how it was opened, and if the coffins were highly decorated with silver plate, &c., to which the clerk gave them satisfactory answers. The ladies rewarded him for his trouble and left. These ladies, it is supposed, were men in women's apparel; for, as we have described i A 0 , ............................Ailiv:), 1 ———- - . - ~ so I . ( I Oil 115 ) 1851 before, the church was broken opens° so p and completely ransacked. The Offin g o i tbt o r; o pwo f esre t e h d e o nt p h l a teh t e ve iialrinadi heads,n t s h thrown werewa n n d i i : is oattheeettopn. Marquis of Westminster has offered 3 D ' reward.—Chester Chronicle. Ther' EVILS OF EXCESSIVE COMPETITIONrthe 00, Rattenbury, of London. leyan missionary meeting, held lot: 1 1 s t de t i cheater and Bolton district, said m ig ht so e said of the cost of printing. He demand Or danger in our times of i n a speech B _ l , , or k, pus hing the be lielt to far too great an extent. He did not much was ever paid, but that °DIY!' i r e r i o ted had been given to the persons who han i l b `u, tbit o sionary documents. It was very P °ss rs not think cheapness was everything. the l opri in to the principle now widely spread , it i o n,:l l , them might have been obtained at a chenfi e ; - co te ui. i ciple of excessive competition. ConP e l until, extent, was fair and just, but pushing l bc i s tes? allow poor persons to have a prePer t sli tg - nd4 country that was leading us to quite disposed to think was one of toe the had been procured for less, would net I wet I fallen upon the poor women who had t° 5 eld o ., OS:if' _eati3ol4,l) this would eternally t masters, whose profits were already va ult thro7.ojr, doctrine was—call it political if they 11 fot o 0 er rather n a lly pay cheapeninga little live,'—let a man have a fair day's wog ses tet s itell the poor men who had to workruatints‘hl'eael'nicizeillenitisE: work—let the poor man live and let the _ . 131 10) P e I cloth, and let both master and men '' ss tob i bl o thi r i g „,:eness ° ' the nobleness, the generosity. and ",7 s l' for which England once was famous. , a nnu,,, • ANNUAL SESSIONS.--The IldjOUrne!,,,,,edel for this county was held at Preston on " rif ,eiOs Addison, Esq., i n t h e c h a i r . The p n ,ittee I brought forward was the report of the Co° ct C ti f A rnOl4 with regard to standing-orders. -"--, nOlnjt , the report recommended that ten day° . 00 , . 4 ,4 pointedat to adjourned o t u h r e n oadn clerks ns eusaslilo of n the in f fourteen given of the annual and adjourned seri„otire:lo ley Parker thought twenty-one dgs•'s sbrj given, and that notices of the proceedisgf 09 the chairman said that the law gave P°" t bstY, M motion was superseded, and the tirc' e ..4# r ,hc orders was accordingly extended to to J r", report recommended that the chairropyras t to vi 4 choose one, and elect one upon the res,ignna till moreevoy for hi line. v ,0 man. The chairman to be an ex-4P silo, committees. That all notices of m otion s b e t) , to the clerk of the peace twenty-one motions minutes. That only n to 0 ° 'Ol sions, and that precedence be • give t he ~, at one time. That n entered. That, in case of divisions, •ri 10 . justices voting shall be taken down in f i p oteq agreed gh l e i rra l eel U rsel glodhdel resolution Btvt o oin n oo. n l ua y nrte:i s gr p ihtr e hbt. a ee k t on the application of two an 'Ot t ' justices, b d and amendment shall be considered gsn e ; bil . , k i t r place by the justices voting viva 1/ o .°,, e; co ol fi ;t 1 greed to. The standing orders, wh ie ", ( lo ss s t others of minor importance were inosli' D r°, l ' ID examiner and inspector of weights en c , l ;olt, divisions of Kirkdale and Prescot, s' , 0 - po.,,br per annum. Mr. Peel objected to the Piberp Kirkdale sessions had before decided tht; iie ll , be the most e ffi cient examiners of •t , '' motion was negatived by a large ins joti,, 0 proposed that foul additional policemen °there' Kirkdale, to be permanently statioted dedth others as assistants. Mr. Lawrence seci n ge? p sh o o si u t l i d on be wa a s which was carried. Mr. Peel propos e "„ t v - e . ,,, lutions defining the duty of the new en u 'eoi - v appointing his salary at X5OO a yea r ' IA t 'd passed. Mr. Addison proposed that P... f „ gon.j for male, criminal prisoners, which wa s prison given tf for rt female, a; ee'bd,oufattuoKikenarcienz:°:icar-'brics.,, F e la a: Ywon r affp e hnod rpe p e d cn co l I ineetyiirnnnt- vauett, differe nt om h epht enMo a ei tngnsdr amendment °Vlrbl°TeSSl flea r'eeonennaii rCitlinel : edSOt':°il,:eyi I i r 'r bil sa bt i tl i °°:rigriLer THE HYDROCARBON GAS AA S AI t bpv,, P o , We stated in November last that D °„ de fr,"o lighted with Mr. White's patent gas , n 1 (Op resin and water. We paid a visit to thitsi6o4 place the other day, and were much gr, o ect . s o l this gas has more than a n s w ered the e'' most sanguine supporters. Great cre,dltg, Commissioners of Southport for lalv i o rto'!!;i 1 obloquy, afforded to Mr. White the IProo' - 0 0. into practice his discovery —one whici: he r 01;4 0 a complete economic revolution in ost7l,l' gas. The appearance of the gas 1 5 :bite ", burns most brilliantly, with a clear " $ 5, quite equal, if not superior, to our OW° toe sidered about the best in England , i ! c e ,ter, illuminating power the gases of Millie from 20 to 30 per cent. It has the al s :,,„ f any other gas we have seen, of not soi""f e ltr t ,j:" a n c t c. s a the ceilings of the rooms in which it is li f o o , giis f n r u e vTffia e enhe f tiye r iei o nnfc m ohet extremely lllalyy t on h ivwcs e eitanrreonsneiegnaxgperio f (being unpleasant s I °, o lig la versaztone at the Royal Institution r f A subject, may be interesting to our rea ' "' Mr. Miller, speaking of the Soutle,roe4 s o f re m o om m f rather o ets n he a g e a p a g e s p r ' ;: e ;: s o o b 1 one cwt. of resin, passed once throarif is:00 duced 1500 cubic feet of gas; but tha t ble,''.d4 worked up afterwards, as far as practice os se s: o i`r, be obtained. The gas thus produced P ther,xli"A minating power 26i per cent superior r o d i' o r' chester (considered good ordinary galprrsalP or? to that of Salford. It contained neil' c ithe9) monia, so abundant in coal gas (e°,. nauseous smell, Mr. might e 1 , 6 0 0, smoke cannot be drawn from it, it „to CV? is, in addition, so easily managed, t i ".,'Soti, i 'd layer's labourer made all the gas ° : "„ t ost",'l,6 states that he could make thrice the ( Vi e ss.',o'. oft space occupied by the apparatus is o f i et is hat for coal gas and the as 0 35 k, times as rapid ; and so far as expen se cerned, the gas may be said to be p . fil • do rioy free, for the residual products obtaine".„osv. of the manufacture, yielded by distillati;c,,A" portion of valuable naptha, resin oil' t oll t s l o the materials employed. In SouthPq t ion with it ; notwithstanding the oel 3 ° sl ‘ . c oic e Yf' with, there is not now a dissentien,osoo. Mr. White himself writes :—He , C° :ee d c f , statement, that the gas can be made " moderately large scale of manufacture• tijere.ipti is more economical not fully to work u t i 1i5,1,4 1 ,t/ to reserve it for the production of n $V o'o after 2000 feet of gas have been ext ra- ' t of resin, although at the works erected.oso e 54 tract so much as 3500 to 4000 feet f I A easp4 sides the advantages Mr. Miller lilT re tcri, White states that the wear and tear tiireooopv` less in this gas, from the lower heat r eci c ole o l3,l a scarcity, or advance of price in res i Z c h ° c ow and other bituminous substances , w teet' ,1 1 unlimited quantity, included in the Pa • Ale ..,Isl` .1/ stitut Th ed. t e splendid works of Messrs. Sc t 0 I Rhodes, near Manchester, are abou this gas C hu_r d " • P 11oc h, o s e ,.„„ 4' sl ' st l a Y n t ' i r. tt4 over '414. %1 sd aY r, • Cat • ts, Praiiog for Wea nesd a ,, last \ i±nt l k in .enly f ro ho t , e dllesd . ii. stre aY last th, , et, di ed E i o lecti"g e lo 4 Hotel teri t i RUM% Tatte nate d e r najori o of a tile z o f tl3llka sl4,,tl tep (f) Bo f thed ar, h o „ i k t i 'first. Pp f„ etc , arri ve e e °f a irel Lk e 7 ' 4 i4 0 se° tt he et 1 6 .4 ' otct "' k t ' 44, t h e,, OP It. ,ftf v 4 mast inti'rS It; ) 4 alb ty . ;: o 'Ode of 'l O ' l °l4 t traphi i t tq 11 ,, ° tik ' Ett or te th . e th •gli tr th eir is e ,,, t i tii: l i m ß th,, h re gard ' , D TI , ~.urt i, ,s , p).'et ilo ,' . ll th e 81 hW 4 ere yeti, and 4 ,0* 3 hee the . 6IN +. 4 rti 31_t ')11 - t he wed ails (i t ' N11 1 ! 8 41 " ' l4 tl)/ 1 lish ra lln derg q i o Na , olt ent l ot dP t - t4 Ao tt trd e o la n lists rid 4 kilo PI yl ' •, a4 s!' %lb ws the°°lll( 41 ) • A po T IN/ resi dNa dti g l nE l o w tl l • th e b Y • 4 4 . L Wlt h th 04 . 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't1 s r . 1 4 t, aft . `4M,POSs e 4 °t' 9 4 4 1 '11 , 4, 8 P t i Pr e . e ACI th kl iSe 18 it 1 ; 1 t 1 p1 5 1 b) Aki 411 4 e. at ir e VII, to Q #, c l 4 11 t he °l ' Ao vr a tLe Pr oDe i 1 44 11 4 4 4 . 4 jrsig F4lt?cee4 ll )o ,, ,' N Vig s f P ky t tt kft k th 1)1 t e e f ` °l lle kle 4 etr, )1 4 : 41 4 1 3 -1 04 - ci 0, 1 t, of tl V h 4 he 44 Folic if: l4 It" i t te nt ttit tlit Patt 411 '04 keo tlt e tgCr vtepi t t he i t 3 4 o4ti J e 4. 4,4 k. 1 1 1 / 4 : 4 4 4 -tit, . th e k., ot, ered th 1 h th e , 4tttit.l Part 1 4 4 i t , NI k h ,o b , rvtp ?tohl -114,542ty — "t Of M ' S i Hyam's name Is known to fame, aorf Throughout the EnOish ll ,,' For this is plain, He strives to 0 The public appr9l tion I Whoverdeals WitVII yam feels ~ He will mdt then be chew ta d , _ Xis well-made clothe. 'All tricks expose, And knavery is defeated. Throughout the English n And this is plain, He ought to On The public approbation • ~. / So Hyam's n ame Is known to fame, at iott; A wonllyam well . May bear the bell, r i c er For none can match his I ), ' And this to all That he can go treasure With heaps of shining t And buy with ease Whate'er he F leas i!e I Regardless of the measu So Hyam's name Is known to farne, _to; Throughout the English 0. il at this magnitice e n The advanta"esn And this is plill,n , He ought to gai n , O f h \ B dVe u ir' t oa they Onnd s him s u h r al)! rise l 10.5; publictheTemple ---.--- f illirC " tre, CO procure the very finest description of Cl ot made or made to measure, at extraol,f e,l , , that they also 'have the opportunitY u te rlo. ,1 Tmc s i H ip: ja i dn ß ielg E ywi from a stock of at least 40,000 Pounds 5 10' ___--. 511* apup p b r o o lfi b cc at oo i nl en rw., • ,erceootstiir,4 ,::s gity !./. 1 . a 1,..., ' ESTAOO 9. I , NATIONAL CLOTHING OF 4 / 1 LORD-STREET, I,''r 10 ;91 I ,A CA S° ttle lli ,t 1 1 DANISH SETTLEMENTS IN ...•— l i T he se- 4 0 , 4 Nortbmen or Danes in England. I te " s teb ° o ( Ji l o9 commencing at Formby, _they e l q _ Ana l'a, P e IV Crosby, Kirkby, Roby, Thing , "',' the ° oat° o f h they intersect the boundaries 0! . 0 _ its l . .n —It ncphugleal:tceetstoi.ateriagrclrteeet,iihsebpryaiires:;oo9ll; assembly held there. The non! 00,,, 4 4 , a court of justice, and Wald, 131 " e ii knerKot ancient Danish court of aJsudsteirci;sl LtriiPseirofropelli adapted for the purpose. 1„t „i s scsaron,` forrtA the site of the mansion of . 04 : 1 :• t h IsL e d ber banker. The Tynwald-hill, in s t i ll use In C olt! cisely of the same origin, and is !_ lat id• o tti of promulgating the laws of the 1 5 ,i.e 0 0 _olt o r Danish settlements commence at a T s ,, fro4fe, Dee, at West Kirby, and extol .We,P9it" another Thingwall, of similar 2) ... g . `pici 71 just described in Lancashire. .0-" Raby, Irby, Ness, and Nestorn,..,o 000,.,5,