The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-07 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. THIS EVENING, (TUESDAY,) the 6th instant, Shakspere's Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet.. Mr. Anderson, The last night but one of his engagement. After which, the Farce of FREDERICK OF PRUSSIA. The Captain Mr. Charles Selby, His second appearance. NOTICE.—The Public is respectfully informed that an arrangement has been made with MISS ADELAIDE KEMBLE, Of the Thcatre-Royal, Covent-garden, positively for FIVE NIGHTS ONLY, her First Appearance in Liverpool, and Last Engagement, previous to her FINAL RETIREMENT from PUBLIC LIFE. In order to give every possible effect to the Operas in which Miss KEMBLE will perform, Miss RAINFORTH and Mr. BALFE, of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden, are also engaged.— Due notice will be given of their first appearance. SIXTH GRAND ROMAN FESTA ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ON FRIDAY EVENING next, and will be r epeated every FRIDAY and MONDAY during the Season. THE PICTORIAL MODEL OF ROME. At dusk, this novel exhibition will be seen under the aspect which the scene presents during the rejoicing in cele bration of Il Giorno di San Pietro, when the whole vast Edifice of St. Peter's is Illuminated, and every detail of the glorious Architecture shines :forth in lines of resplendent light. It is on such festive occasions that the celebrated Girandola, or great FIREWORKS of ST. ANGELO, are displayed from the summit of the Castle and Bridge. beyond all comparison the grandest display of Pyrotechnic Art ever invented. A fac simile of this GORGEOUS FESTIVAL will be represented. Amidst tremendous FLIGHTS of ROCKETS, and CASCADES of FIRE FOUNTAINS and STARS, the whole of the Eternal City will appear as visible as by the broad light of day. Pyrotechnic Artist, SIGNOR SEMONI. A first-rate MILITARY BAND, which, under the superin tendance of Mr. STUBBS, will perform during the Season. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. WILL POSITIVELY CLOSE ON SATURDAY NEXT. EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION NOW OPEN, EVERY MORNING, AFTERNOON, & EVENING, AT THE ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, CHU.RCH,§TREET. AGRAND CENTRIFUGAL RAILWAY,,2OO feet long, with a Vertical Circle upwards of 40 feet in circum ference, round which a Carriage of 200 pounds in weight, containing a Lady or Gentleman, will REVOLVE at the rate of ONE HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR, with perfect safety ; also immense Iron Weights and Buckets of Water will be placed in the Carriage, and although the whole will be com pletely inverted, not a weight or a drop of - water will be dis placed. Also, a brilliant display of the OXY-HYDROGEN LIGHT, with other interesting Scientific Experiments. For the convenience of Parties who cannot attend in the Evening, the Railway will be open every day from Eleven to One, and from Three to Five. In the Evening from Six to Nine o'clock, with other Entertainments. Admission—Boxes, ls. ; Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Schools may be admitted on advantageous terms, by appli cation being made at the Theatre by their Tutor, during any of the above hours. EARLY SUPPLY OF THE TIMES (LONDON) AND ALL THE MORNING AND EVENING PAPERS IN LIVERPOOL. AIT PEARSON, 45, LORD -STREET, having succee d e d t o 1 1 , • the News Business lately conducted by Mr. L. T. GASKILL, begs to intimate that he DELIVERS, IN EVERY PART OF LIVERPOOL, Immediately on the Arrival of theißailway Trains, The Times, Morning Post, Morning Herald, Morning Chro nicle, Morning Advertiser, The Sun, Standard, Globe, Courier, Shipping Gazette, Record, Evening Mail, AND ALL THE WEEKLY LONDON AND PROVIN CIAL PAPERS. THE EXPRESS EDITIONS OF THE TIMES are always received, and may be had on board EVERY PACKET AND VESSEL LEAVING THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL, IF PARTIES INQUIRE FOR PEARSON'S MESSENGERS. CIRCULATION OF THE TIMES (LONDON) IN LIVERPOOL THE TIMES invariably arrives in Liverpool from Half past Three to a Quarter before Four in the Afternoon, Daily. And any complaint of the Non-Delivery, or Late Delivery, should be made to L. T. GASKILL, Agent for the Times. 2, Lord-street Chambers, (over 45.) TO CORRESPONDENTS The letter of Robert Rose, Esq. (the bard of colour), has been received. It is very funny. Does he wish us to pub lish it ? We have not the least objection. LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY. — We have received several com munications from subscribers to this charity; complaining (and we think justly) of the interference and dictation of certain influential parties, in sending lithographed circulars in order to induce them to vote for their favourite at the ensuing election for the office of physician. Though ad mirers of fair play, we cannot interfere. The subscribers are the best judges of the merits and claims of the respeC tive candidates, and we cannot suppose that the preference of any gentleman, however influential, for his own friend, will induce the trustees, &c., to overlook or reject the su perior claims of any other individual. EIR Etbrrpoot &tanbart. TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1842 The debate upon the renewal of the sugar duties on Friday night we cannot but regard as one of the most interesting of the session, whether as regards the im portant subjects which it embraced or the talent which it developed. In particular, we cannot help pointing with admiration to the masterly offort of the Vice- President of the Board of Trade—Mr. W. E. Glad stone. By that gentleman a mass of statistical and other information was brought to bear upon the sub ject, which, added to the strong considerations of 'a different eharacter which exist, to take the article of sugar out of the category of those articles to which free trade principles can, at the present moment, with con sistency be applied, ought to satisfy, and we are sure will satisfy, every candid man that the policy of her Majesty's government, with respect to it, is the only honest and honourable course which they can pursue. It was not proposed on Friday, by the great body of the self-styled friends of the consuming classes, that by the alteration of the differential duty between foreign and colonial sugar any additional revenue was to be derived. In this respect, the notice of Mr. Labouchere was essentially different from the proposition of the Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer last year. Mr. Baring proposed—(we are far from admitting that it would have had that effect)—to raise an additional re venue amounting to £600,000 from this source. The proposition of Mr. Labouchere, on the contrary, is to throw away a revenue of something between £400,000 and £BOO,OOO, for which of course some substitute must be provided. It was urged, indeed, that Sir Robert Peel would have a surplus available, from the amount prodnced by his income tax ; but even supposing this to be the case, of which we are certainly not sanguine, still it can only fill the place of some other reductions of the tariff which were to be effected from the same source, and is thus no boon, in the way of conceded taxation at least, to the consuming classes. That this sacrifice of revenue would take place was clearly proved by Mr. Gladstone. It was shown by that gentleman, upon the data furnished by Mr. Labou chere himself, that the average duty-paid price of sugar under the proposed new duties would be 545. 6d. per cwt. The average price of the three years 1830, 1831, and 1832 was 50s. 3d.—or 3s. 6d. per cwt. less. It was fair, therefore, to take the consumption per head of those three years of cheapness as the standard per head of consumption, under the system of reduced duties and reduced price. The consumption per head in those years was 25-1- lbs. per annum ; in 1840 it had fallen to 241. Giving, therefore, an additional pound per head, to raise the consumption to the standard of 1830 to 1832, and calculating the population by the new census, there would be an increase of 18,656,000 lbs., or 8,328 tons,'as the probable additional consump tion of 1841-2. If half of this were foreign sugar, the duty would be paid on this additional quantity to the amount of £218,714 against £852,400 deficiency, leaving a nett sacrifice of revenue, from the change, of £633,700. If the increase of consumption here as suured were even to be doubled, there would still re main a nett deficit of £417,000. And what is the amount of the reduction in the cost of sugar to the consumer to compensate for b t e hi r s ep lo la ss ce o d f revenue,—which, be i t remembered, must by taxation in some other shape ? Why, at the utmost , the reduction from the pre sent p rice to th at whichMr Labouchere calculates upon , as the future p r ice , would be 7s. iod. per cwt., or less than Id. p er lb. Calcu lating, however, upon the advance which would ne cessarily take place in the price of foreign sugar upon its admission into the British market, the saving to the consumer would probably not reach three farthings per lb., or about eighteenpence a year upon his consump tion. For this paltry amount we are called upon to inflict certainly " a heavy blow," if not utterly to ruin our sugar produciug colonies, and to hold out the strongest bonus which can be given for the perpetua tion of slavery throughout the world. We are called upon to do this, too, at a time when it is becoming more and more certain that the consumption of the British market can he supplied by the produce of our own free labour colonies, at prices which are steadily decreasing from year to year. In 1840, according to statements furnished by Sir Robert Peel, the average price of Bri tish plantation sugar was 495. id. per cwt.; in 1841 it was 395. 7d. ; IT to the preset time the average of 1842 has been 38s 2d., and last week it was 375. 3d. And " this," justly observed the right hon. baronet, " was not a mere fluctuation, but a continuous reduction in przee from 1840 to the present time." Upon the ground of revenue, therefore, and upon the ground of expediency even, there is no great inducement to enter upon this Whig Radical cru sade against the Colonial interests, except, perhaps, in the minds of these few individuals, who may be ready to exclaim with Mr. Roebuck—" Jamaica to the bottom of the sea, and all the Antilles after it !" But the main objection, after all, is the affect of any flinch ing, on the part of Great Brityin, from the maintenance of her attitude of protestation against the continuation of slavery, and the slave trade throughout the world. Can it, for a moment, be denied, that the admission of the slave sugars of Cuba and Brazil into the British market, must have an effect prejudicial to the dignified maintenance of that position? Will not slavery there- 1 by in Cuba and the Brazils, receive a direct stimulus even by cultivation in these colonies being rendered more profitable ? There can be no question of the fact; and a melancholy subject of consolation it trotild) be, if Great Britain, after signalizing herself amongst the nations of the world by her exertions—aye, and her sacrifices too,—to put down that monster evil, slavery, in her own OiSlonies, and those of other countries ; at a time, too, when it is an established fact that those exertions are fast progressing towards success—should turn back from her noble work, actuated by the most mercenary and paltry motives which can degrade hu man nature. The bare mention of the following facts, should alone suffice to encourage us to go on in the course which we are at present pursuing. In 1835, the importation of slaves into the island of Cuba, was to the number of 40,000. In 1840 the number was reduced to 14,470, or only one-fourth the number which had been imported six years previously. In Brazil the importa tion in 1888 was 94,000 f in 1839 it had fallen to 56,000; and in 1840 to 14,224, being only one-fourth of the importation of 1839, and one-sixth of that of 1831 ! Still it must be borne in mind, however, that much of this diminution must be attributed to the active surveillance exercised by our cruizers on the African coast. To such an extent in fact has this been carried that, at the present moment the insurance upon slaving adventures to the coast of Cuba, is 40 per cent. upon the value of the cargo. Give, how ever, to Cuba a profitable trade in sugar cultivation, and, despite of this heavy risk, the slave trade must be stimulated ; and in that case, with the admitted vigi lance of our cruisers, we ask the anti-slavery party to contemplate what must be the increased horrors of the middle passage ?—what must be the added horrors of this horrible trade ? Sir James Graham has certainly a strange mode of protecting the community, and possibly the person of the Sovereign herself, from the result of incendiary agitation. In answer to a question, put to him on Friday evening, by Mr. Ferrand, as to the course which the Government were prepared to pursue with respect to the circulation of a placard, recently posted upon the walls of this town, the atrocious nature of which we alluded to in our last publication, is re ported to have said, that although he admitted that the placard in question was "couched in terms of great violence," and that " the,language was inflammatory," yet "he had to state, with much pleasure that, on the whole, the great body of the people, though in severe distress, had conducted themselves with exemplary patience, and that no breach of the law of any conse quence had taken place, and the Government would certainly therefore take no step in the matter." Does Sir James Graham mean to say that the Go vernment will "take no step" to put down the circula tion of an agitation, admitted to be " inflammatory" and to be " couched in terms of great violence," until " the great body of the people" cease to " conduct themselves with exemplary patience," or until some " breach of the law of some consequence" takes place ? Is this, or ought this to be, the language of a Secretary of State, at a moment, too, when the Sovereign has so nearly fallen a victim to the disaffection of one of her subjects ? We really must say it is not ; and, with every possible respect for Sir James Graham, we must add, that should such an event, which he declares will alone vindicate the interference of Government, unfor tunately take place, he and they will, morally, be as guilty of the offence committed.—as liable for the sacri fice of life and of the peace of the realm which may be involved in it—as the criminal, whoever he may be, and whatever may be his crime. The proceedings of such a meeting as that held on bursday last, in our Sessions-house, to give expres- sion to the thanks of the community in which we live at the late fortunate escape of our Sovereign from the pistol of the assassin, we gladly permitted to go forth to the public, unaccompanied by a word of comment which could mar the unanimity which ought to prevail upon such an occasion. Degrading indeed it would be to the great commercial town of Liverpool if her mer chants and tradesmen, however various may be their political opinions, could not meet on such an occasion upon neutral ground—could not lay aside, at the stir ring of such an event as the threatened murder of their young and gracious Queen, even the appearance of party difference. The incitement, however, to our silence is now past. The loyal expression of the heart of this loyal town has now gone forth, and is by this time before the throne of the Sovereign ; and we have no longer a motive for withholding an opinion with re spect to the feeling manifested by a small section of the meeting towards the criminal himself, whose atro cious act it was called to denounce in language befit ting Englishmen to utter and the world to hear from their lips. We have no wish to remark upon the expression of the silly individual, who would visit an attempt upon the life of the Queen of these realms with no heavier a penalty than that provided for the robbery of a hen roost; and prescribe " a month upon the treadmill" or •" a sound flogging" as the preventive of so heinous a crime. Such an aspirant to the reputation of origi nality will, we presume, be appreciated when the " Middlesex goose," who at present represents the Scotch borough of Montrose, is esteemed of equal wisdom with those sagacious birds whose timely cock .. ling preserved the Roman capitol. But we cannot pass over the sentiments expressed by so prominent a per sonage as Mr. William Rathbone,—a gentleman who, under the late Whig millenium, held the , office of Mayor of Liverpool,—without, at the least, e ndeavouring to arrive at the meaning of the unhappy Radical in ques tion, which certainly does, to us, seem to savour of something of rather questionable loyalty. Although, at the time of giving vent to the piece of absurdity which we feel called upon to notice, this atra bitious Socinian was moving a resolution, which ex pressly admitted that the offence of the would-be mur derer of his Queen had been attempted on the preced ing day, Mr. William Rathbone could not avoid ex- pressing his coincidence in opinion with the silly being we have before alluded to,—viz., that no greater noto• riety than that of the treadmill or a whipping ought to be accorded to the perpetrator of an attempt upon the life of her Majesty. Such criminals, argued Mr. Rath bone, should not be " martyrized ;" they should not have a "post mortem honour conferred upon them." It is not a question with him " whether this criminal is to be hung, or put to the treadmill, or ke pt in soli tary confinement" ; but " let it not," argued Mr. Wil liam Rathbone, " be with a martyr's name " ! Min gled with all this pure humbug is, of tour se, a vast quantity of professed deprecation of the attack of the miscreant upon the life of her Majesty ; but what on earth, we ask, is the meaning of the deprecation of the just visitation of outraged loyalty upon the person of the would-be murderer ? What on earth does William Rathbone mean by his deprecation of the "post nzor tem honour" of punishment upon the person of tl:e would-b e assass i n ? Is the life of the Queen o f E ng -. v land to be valued at a less price than that of the mean est of he r su bj ects ? Is size alone to be the target at which every disaffected scoundrel throughout her do minions m a y s h oot, with impunity ? What, in fine, is it that this u lt ra- W hig—this ex-mayor, ex-councillor , and rejected of every honest constituency of Liverpool designates by th e name he or some of his friends o c f an " enlighten l a i r g t ine d bn o e m utsh ' Perhaps :: gentleman We are certainly as hostile as i can "martyrdom" in question to that disposition, too common of late in England and elsewhere, to exalt every ruffian who takes the life of a fellow-creature into a hero ;—which leads even females, and those respectable ones too, to luxu riate in the hearing of condemned sermons, and even to buy finery to dress up the murderer upon the gal lows. But we can see no parallel between such a feel ling and the expression of loyalty and thankfulness of a meeting such as that to which Mr. William Rath bone addressed the language under notice. We can see nothing in the calling of such a meeting, upon such an occasion, which bears evidence of a design to inflict either " posthumous " or any other " honour " (1) or what Mr. Rathbone called "martyrdom" upon the miscreant whose attempted crime had been the occa sion of its being called together. Why then should such a meeting be deprecated as calculated to confer undue importance upon the crime and the criminal ? Is it lest the world, following llThig example, set them in the case of a similar occurrence two years ago, should set about the task of tracing that crime to the agitation which denounces the law of the land as MURDEROUS and the legislators of the land as MURDERERS ? Is it to hush up inquiry into the connection between agita tion and such attempted crime ? Is it lest Conserva tive loyalty should seize upon such an occurrence to break forth into that frantic and howling denunciation of its political opponents which disgraced the Whig press two years ago, and turned even a meeting called for the same purpose and in the same spot as that held on Thursday last into a bear-garden ? If any of these are the motives of Mr. Rathbone's anxiety that the attempt upon her Majesty's life just made should not be elevated into an affair of impor tance, he may, we can assure him, allay his fears. We shall not imitate the unworthy example set us, even to put a stop to the agitation which we cannot, neverthe less, view as any other than one calculated to lead to time worst and most fatal results. The world was just emerging from the cloud of ill in which ten years of Whig misgovernment had plunged it ; the shock occasioned by an attack even upon the life of our beloved Sovereign was fast sub siding ; when the entire Conservative body of the em pire are once more submerged in dismay and grief—a grief, too, from which there is apparently no escape, and which, as loyal men, we must endure in unrepin ing silence. The astounding fact has just been re vealed to us; and visions of bedchamber plots and apron-string conspiracies flit before our bewildered gaze. Bright faces, formed to dazzle and delight, frown horribly upon us. Curl papers and eau-de- Cologne, cambric caps and robes-de-nuit, rudely dashed in our faces, have hurled us back from the pinnacle of renewed hope and strength into the " slough of despond," if not into the pit of Acheron itself. Listen, reader, to the narration of this heart-rending calamity, and then " to breakfast with what appetite you may." But first let us premise that, on the ho nour of the Liverpool Albion, it is strictly true— " As true as truth has ever been of late ;" that that veracious oracle has derived the information " from one who himself moves in the circles of which he speaks, and who is well acquainted with all that passes therein." Sic loquitur Albion In plain words, then, THE QUEEN, on compulsion, tolerates the tories as her ministers, but she will not acknowledge them as her friends ; and bitter are the lamentations occa sioned by this marked dislike and distaste to them on the part of royalty. In the language of our informant, " great dissatisfaction prevails amongst the tories at the marked pre ference shown by her majesty to those who were about her during Lord Melbourne's premiership; and Peel is never asked to dine, if it can possibly be avoided. Another source of disappointment is, so many whigs are asked to the parties at the palace. The Queen corrects the list herself, and the Lord Chamberlain has been obliged to tell many of his nu merous applicants, who are tories, that he has no power, the Queen herself choosing whom she shall invite." There's for you, gentlemen and Conservatives ! The Queen only tolerates you " upon compulsion "—a thing, by-the-bye, which the immortal Sir John Fal staff would never have stooped to do. " Peel is never asked to dine." Poor man ! There is a consolation for him that, unlike some ministers we could name, he has his mutton chop and pint of port at home. "So many Whigs", too, " are asked to the parties at the palace." Lucky dogs ! Again : "the Queen corrects the list herself," and the Lord Chamberlain (poor functionary !) " has no power." Heart-rending pic ture ! At this moment it is presented in all its bitter ness to our mind's eye. There stands her Majesty, late the object of the affectionate fears and the devoted admiration of her loyal subjects; and there the Cham berlain, with " list" and pen in hand. " Strike me out the name of that peer !" exclaims the Queen; " he's a Peelite." The Chamberlain " looks and sighs" ; and the aspiring hopes of an heir to an earl dom, a marquisite, or a dukedom, are dashed to earth for ever ! Again : "put me down that Whig for. my next party." The tailors at the west end forthwith stand two inches higher in their pumps at the distant prospect of a cheque upon the Treasury for a debt hi therto deemed hopeless; or some Sir Timothy APDid dle, from the manufacturing districts, adds another blazoning to the forged coat of arms upon the panel of his chariot ! But proceed we with our worthy Albion ; and be grave, reader, whilst you peruse the following philoso phical and truly poetical remarks : " Such are the sorrows and the griefs of those who are struggling for the highest places in the fashionable world. We, in the distance, may smile"—(much in the fashion of a fox smiling at a bunch of grapes, or a monkey grinning through the bars of his cage at a nut-vender's basket)—" and think that such things are of marvellously small consequence, but we are much mistaken." (Very !) " These trifles are all, are everything. the summum bonum of happiness and of life itself, to the gay and giddy throng who flutter in the precincts of courts, and, like motes dancing In the sunbeams"—(beau tiful and original!)—" find no pleasure except in mingling in the most brilliant circle of fashion which royalty patronizes. Exclusion from this is misery to them. The poor creatures, then, are much to be pitied. It certainly must be very horri ble for them to feel that they are considered as not " pre sentable" by the most exalted personage in the realm." Melancholy picture this, reader ! and "pity 'tis 'tis true"; for the Albion informs you that you " may de pend upon the truth of this piece of COURT CHIT CHAT ! His authority is of the HIGHEST ORDER !!" It is moreover that of one *ho MOVES IN THE CIR CLES WHICH HE DESCRIBES ! ! ! Naughty tell-tale ! Who, we wonder, can he be, — this being who moves in the circles which he describes, and is hand-and-glove with our friends of the Albion office ? The editor of the Liverpool Times would, we should imagine, give his ears—a bargain they would be—for such a palace correspondent ! Wig wouldn't give a button for a dozen such. LOCAL NEWS The British and North American royal mail steamer Britannia, Captain Hewitt, sailed, on Saturday afternoon, for Halifax and Boston. She carried out upwards of sixty passengers and a heavy mail. The Acadia, which would leave Boston on the Ist and Halifax on the 3d instant, may be ex pected to arrive about this day week. THE LATE ALBION BAN K.—A meeting of the shareholders of this bank, recently disolved, was held on Tuesday last, at the Clarendon-rooms, to receive the report of the directors, J. H. Sanderson, Esq., in the chair. The shareholders, it appeared, had received back their subscribed capital, £25 per share, and the surplus, after defraying all the outstanding liabilities of the company, would, it was calculated, enable the directors to make a final payment of nearly £7 per share. The report was received, there not having been more than six dissentients to the recommendations of the directors. The sum of £l2OO was voted: namely, to the directors £5OO ; to the manager, Mr. Hugh Mackay, £300; to the two cashiers £l5O each; and to the clerks £lOO. MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRKENHEAD.—A public meeting of the inhabitants of the above town was held, at the Town-hall, on Friday night. to adopt congratu latory addresses to her Majesty and Prince Albert, on the recent providential escape of her Majesty from assassination. The meeting was numerously and most respectably attended. J. D. Case, Esq., was unanimously voted to the chair. The first resolution was proposed by the Rev. Andrew Knox, who, in a very-eloquent and feeling manner, alluded to the recent atrocious attempt on the life of her Majesty. He had, he said, no doubt that such a burst of loyalty would be manifested throughout the country as would convince her Majesty how deeply the attempt upon her life was felt by her people. The other resolutions were proposed and seconded, in strong sympathetic terms, by the several gentlemen who took part in the proceedings. Before the company separated Mr. William Jackson proposed three cheers for the Queen, as that was the first meeting at Birkenhead in which the different political parties had united. The proposition was carried out with hearty good-will. FORGERY.—Charles Grace was placed before Mr. Rushton on Saturday, charged with having forged a cheque for £4O on the Liverpool Banking Company, in the name of his em ployer, Mr. Henry Stuart. Officer 182 of the metropolitan police, C division, stated, that he apprehended the prisoner in London, as a vagrant. On questioning him he learned that he had absconded from Liverpool with £4O in his pocket , which he had obtained by f org i ng a cheque in the name of his master. He was taken before a magistrate and remanded for one week, and inquiries were made at Liverpool which prayed the correctness of the statement. A clerk from the banking company proved the payment of the cheque on the 21st April last. Mr. Henry Stuart said the prisoner had ab sconded from his service a few days previous to the presenta tion of the cheque, The body of the cheque was filled up i n the handwriting of the prisoner : the signature was not his (Mr. Stuart's) handniting. The prisoner was committed for trial. SOLAR SPOT.—Abont half-way between the eastern edge of the sun's disc and its centre, a very beautiful dark spot may now be seen, travelling towards the right, accompanied by the usual luminous border, and may be distinctly seen (when the atmosphere proves favourable) with telescopes of moderate power, having the eye protected with a piece of dark-coloured glass. MISS CRELLIN'S CASE — BAIL FOR COPELAND.—On Fri day, at the Police-court, an elderly man, named John Lee, offered to become bail for Copeland. He was interrogated by the bench as follows :—What are you?—A beer-seller and builder in general. In general ? What do you mean ?—I mean that lam a .bnilder. Where do you live?—At No. 24, Vine-street, where my beer-house is situated. How long have you lived there?—Since the sth of February. What were you before ?—I was in the coachmaking department of the Grand Junction Railway. 'What wages did you get ?—A guinea a week latterly. What had you before ?-18s. a week. How long had you the guinea ?—Perhaps about a year. Had you any other business at that time ?—Yes, I kept a beer house then at 38, Vine -street. • How long have you kept the beer-house ?—About two years. Had you any other means of living?—Oh, yes; I have p roperty o f m y own. What is the nature of it . ?—Money. To what extent ?—I cannot say exactly. Cannot you say whether you are worth £5O, £lOO, or £lOOO ?—Well, £5O. Have you got it now ?—Yes, I have £lOO. In what ?—I have £lOOO in one lot in three houses, and £BOO in another lot. Do you mean lent on them ?—No, I mean landed property. Are they mortgaged ?—Three of the houses are mortgaged, the other two are free. What is the rent of the free houses I—XBO. Do you know Copeland? Yes. How long have you known him?—Nearly twelve months. Have you received any promise of indemnity from him either directly or indirectly ? No ; it is a voluntary act of humanity. How happens it, having this money and those houses, that you were arrested a short time since ?—lt was through a misunderstanding between two parties, and I got arrested not knowing the judgment that was against me.— William Leveratt, one of the superintendents of police, stated that about five weeks ago Lee had been for four days con fined in the house of Lawton, a borough officer, in Temple street, for debt, and that he (Lee) was very near being con fined there again last week, but the matter had been compro mised. In reply to questions from Mr. Snowball, Lee stated that the houses, which were not mortgaged, were situated in Vine-street—that they were not numbered—and that they were his property without any incumbrance on them, but that the deeds had not yet been drawn. Mr. Rushton refused to take the bail. INQUESTS.—The following inquests were held on Friday, before Mr. Curry, the borough coroner :—On the body of Charles Willett, a man aged 62. It appeared that the de ceased was one of the hands on board. of the ship " John Franklin," which arrived at this port from Buenos Ayres on the morning of Wednesday last. The vessel sailed in Febru ary last and the deceased was quite well. About the end of April he became ill, and though he so far rallied that he could do some light work, he relapsed about ten days before the arrival of the vessel and was confined to his hammock, — in which he was found dead on the vessel arriving in the river. One of the hands had spoken to him' a quarter of an hour before. According to the evidence every possible at tention had been paid to him in his illness, and his death was immediately communicated to the authorities. The deceased was asthmatical, and had no doubt died from natural causes. The verdict was returned accordingly, and we notice the cir cumstance merely to show the institution of" crowners quest law" takes especial cognizance of sudden deaths, so as to de tect instances of foul play.—The next inquest was on the body of a male infant found on Thursday, in St. Nicholas's Church Yard, in a deal box. It was proved on a surgical examination that the deceased was still born. Verdict ac cordingly.—An inquest was also held on the body of William Sharman, a boy three years of age. The father of the de ceased is employed in a coal flat running on the canal, and belonging to Messrs. Jonathan Blundell and Son. On Thursday afternoon tfie father missed his child from the ves sel, and after searching for him for some time in vain, went in a boat with another man and dragged round the flat. The body was found, after being immersed from the time the de ceased was missing about three hours. Verdict—found dead, but how deceased got into the water there was no evidence to show. NEW BRIDGE OVER WALLASEY POOL.-ItiS, we believe, the determination of several influential gentlemen, resident in Birkenhead and its vicinity, to erect a bridge across Wal lasey Pool. The undertaking is highly important to the in habitants of Seacombe, New Brighton, and all the surround ing neighbourhood, as when the bridge is completed it will shorten the distance between Birkenhead, Seacombe, and New Brighton, about seven or eight miles. The results that will naturally follow this great saving in distance will be a vast increase of trade in the town of Birkenhead ; and an equal advantage will be derived by the inhabitants on the other side of the pool, in consequence of the increasing num ber of visitors that will travel through their respective dis tricts. We have seen a drawing of the intended bridge, which is designed by Alfred Yarrow, Esq., civil engineer. It will be a draw-bridge with ornamental work—working upon stone piers, at a height of thirty feet above the present surface, having seven timber arches of twenty feet span each, leaving a water way of nearly two hundred feet. The bridge will be approached by a new road across Bidston Moss. The contract for the work is taken by Messrs. Walker and Craven, of Birkenhead. We learn that ten years ago an attempt was made to cross the pool by a bridge, but it failed in consequence of not being properly constructed. THE CASE OF INJURY INFLICTED BY A WIFE ON HER HUSBAND.—We reported in our last the particulars of this case as they transpired on the first hearing. On Friday the case was again brought on in the police-court. John Carroll, the injured husband, said he was a blacksmith, and had four children by his wife the (the prisoner). The latter is now pregnant. They had been married eleven years. He had a dispute with her on Monday night. He had come home at a late hour, and a quarrel had ensued between them. He struck her, but only once. He then recapitulated the cir cumstances of being asleep, and being awakened by the pain, &c., as stated in our last. He was injured on the right side of the face and down his neck. (Witness's face was wrapped up, but he had not, we learned, lost the sight of his eye.) A surgeon was brought in by a neighbour.—Mr. John Dames, surgeon, said he was called in. He described the injuries to the face and neck. The skin was broken by the application of vitriol. Mr. Macintyre, who had also been called in, con curred with the last named witness. He found the complain ant's face much swollen, and the skin broken, and its vitality destroyed. The bottle containing sulphuric acid found in the house, and now produced, would cause such injuries. Both of the medical gentlemen were shown the shirt and the singlet worn by the complainant, and the pillow on which he lay, in all of which the cloth was burnt, by, as they conceived, such a liquid. An apron worn by the prisoner was also pro duced with some holes in it, but they were not so clear as to the cause being the same. Inspector M`Donald said that soon after he went to the house the prisoner wished to make a disclosure and he cautioned her. She said no person but herself and the children were in the house that night, (when the complainant was in bed and got up injured,) and that no one could have entered and done it. He had also repeated what he had before said—that she had also stated that she and her husband had differences, and that her husband had accused her of attempting to take his life, and that she had replied (as we understood the witness) that he had attempted to take her's when she was last confined. The witness pro duced the phial—a small one—which had been found in the house, and which appepred to be about half full of a dark co loured liquid—said to be sulphuric acid.—Mr. Rushton cau tioned the prisoner as to what she might say, intimating at thd same time that he should commit on the evidence he had heard. She said with considerable emphasis—" lam inno cent." She was then committed for trial at the sessions. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—WiIIiaM Davis was, on Saturday, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with having embezzled certain moneys belonging to his employers. The prisoner, it appeared, has been a clerk in the service of Mr. William Holton, who was formerly a partner with Mr. Corf, butcher. This partnership was dissolved in July, last, and the prisoner was employed to balance the books and collect the outstanding accounts. In the course of a month, an agreement was made that he should receive £1 10s. per week for his services. About this time, he made a proposal to Mr. Holton, that he should receive £2 per week, in tonsi 1, deration of his earning for that gentleman £5 per week by " putting him up to the trick of discounting bills" for ne cessitous people. Mr. Holton declined this offer, conceiv ing that the business would not be creditable. The prisoner continued in the service of Mr. Holton till last month, when, in consequence of the books not having been properly at tended to, he was discharged from the office of bookkeeper, but still permitted to collect accounts. On Friday week it was discovered that the prisoner had received a sum of £1 2s. 6d. due from Mr. John Crosthwaite, which he had not accounted for. The prisoner made an offer to balance the accounts, but this was declined. It appeared that the prisoner had received, each week of his engagement, £1 on on account, and had been allowed to take meat each week on account of the balance. Mr. Holton denied that he had authorized the prisoner to appropriate any accounts which he might collect. On Monday last the prisoner sent in a ba lance sheet, acknowledging the receipt of sums of money from various parties, which sums be had not accounted for. The prisoner was remanded.—Yesterday he was again ex amined, when two further cases were proved against him, and he was committed for trial at the sessions. ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING EDUCATION IN THE WEST INDIES.—On Friday the annual meeting of the Liver pool Ladies' Association for Promoting Education in the British West Indies was held at the Charitable Institution house, Slater-street, and was rather thinly attended. The chair was taken shortly after two o'clock by the Rev. W. W. Ewbank, minister of St. George's Church, Everton, wbo opened the meeting with singing and prayer. Mr. Adam Hodgson, who first addressed the audience, said it should be recollected that the great act of generosity on the part of the English kingdom awl 'government had been confined in a great measure to the planters of the West Indies, and that the neg ro population had now arrived at a peculiar crisis. (Hear.) They were in a state of transition, in which their social condition was capable of being improved, their minds opened, and new feelings, prospects, desires, and pursuits inculcated. Mr. Hodgson alluded with thankfulness to the gratifying accounts which' had reached England of the pro gress of the work in the West Indies. The Chairman said he believed the objects of the Society for Promoting Educa tion in the British West Indies were generally known, and therefore unnecessary to be detailed. Those objects were not to establish schools, but to help either the first establish ment of schools in the West India Islands, or afterwards to afford assistance when the schools had been established. The Chairman read a letter from Miss Lloyd, setting forth that the society had stronger claims than usual on the benevolent. The society had been instrum ental, since its co mmencement fifteen or sixteen years sinc e, in educating seven thousand scholars for about the sum of £15,000 a-year. The instruc tion communicated by itinerant teachers had led to the for mation of regular schools in districts where the negroes were heretofore accustomed to meet, under the shade of a tree. The committee regretted that, at a time like the present, when judicious efforts were most needed, the Church Mis sionary Society should have been compelled to withdraw from the West Indies, a circumstance which would have the effect of causing many schools to be abandoned, unless the Ladies' Society should be induced to keep them up, The committee further regretted that Her Majesty's Government had come to the resolution of withdrawing their grant of £7OO a year from the society, by reducing it to one-fifth every year year until 1846, when it was to cease altogether. The com mittee had, however, resolved to keep up their schools as long as possible. Miss Lloyd concluded by saying that the remittance from Liverpool, in the last year, had been very liberal, and that the committee looked to Liverpool this year for continued and increased support. The Itev. Dr, Tattershall said the emancipation of the slaves was a subject which interested the people of this country, and one in which he bad taken a somewhat active part. He never could consider the questi on o f giving freedom to the slave in the light of a boon. He considered that the negroes bad been wronged while they were in that condition, and that it was an act of justice to set them free. But if there of ff justice,taking was one feeling c onn ected with tha t subject which more th an any other pre sse d u p on his mind, it was th e d uty care that while E ng l an d was performing_ ,an act that act should issue in blessing and not in injustice—in other words, that freedom should be a blessing and not a curse. Without such efforts as the present, and without the use of such instrumentality as the meeting would put in motion, the freedom of the negroes would be incomplete, because they were all aware of the rank weeds which were constantly springing up in the unconverted heart of man. He, there fore, could not but rejoice in the formation and continuance of such a society as the one they were met to support. He had not been previously aware that the home government were about to withdraw their small grant from the society, which was a very great su bj e ct of regret;, bgt ,they w ere a ll too well acqu a i nte d w i t h the n ature and war mt h of British benevolence to suffer themselves to despond in such aca The Rev. M r . B ateson su b s equently addressed the mee tin g after which th e p rocee di ng s terminated with the si ng i ng o f the doxology. LIVERPOOL BOROUGH COURT 81LL..--This bill was read third time in the House of Commons on Friday and passed. WALTON CHURCH.—The collections at Walton Church, on Sunday last, in aid of the Eve and Ear Infirmary, a-. 1.• „ amounted to the handsome sum of X 55: Dr. Wesley, the celebrated organist, of Leeds, presided at the organ. We regret to find that the prospects for the hay crop in this neighbourhood, contrary to our expectation, are likely to prove very deficient; there being a very thin bottom, which the late rain and sun have not at all remedied ; at present the best meadow hay is selling at Bd. to 9d. per stone of 20 lbs., in our market, which is not likely to continue. LOYAL INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS, M.U., L.D.—During lodge business on Tuesday, May 31st, 1842, the officers and brothers of the Loyal Duke of York Lodge, No. 2,457, deputed N.G. W. C. Cook to present P.G. Francis Borrowdale with a handsome silver lever watch, as a slight memorial of their esteem for his constant and inde fatigable exertions for the welfare of their lodge during a pe riJd of 18 months. ROBBERY IN A CHURCH.—At the Police-court, yesterday, a young girl, whose name was not stated, and who was said to belong to a respectable family, was charged with having stolen a handkerchief, the property of a gentleman who was attending divine service in St. Michael's Church on Sunday. The prisoner was in the prosecutor's pew when he went in ; and she remained there till the close of the service. It ap peared that during the prayers she contrived to take one of two handkerchiefs which were in the gentleman's bat, with which ran off immediately that she arrived at the church door. She was followed, and apprehended. Mr. Rushton ordered her to be remanded to this day, (Tuesday,) in order to make some inquiries respecting her. ILLEGAL PAWNlNG.—Yesterday an elderly female, named Maly Gurney, was charged, before Mr. Rushton, at the Po lice-court, with having assaulted a young woman, named Catherine Pennant, the daughter of a pilot belonging to this port. The charge of assault was abandoned when it was found that when the prisoner was in Bridewell a number of pawnbrokers' tickets were found concealed about her person relating to articles belonging to the complainant. The pawn ing, and the ownership of the property havini , been proved, the prisoner was ordered to pay the value of the goods so il legally pawned, and a fine of 40s. in addition. I n default of payment she was ordered to be imprisoned for two months. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.-1 very great treat is pro vided for the subscribe.s to this institution by the engage ment for to-morrow evening of Mr. James Russell, who a year or two ago delighted the audience of this town by his graceful singing and clever impersonations. Mr, James Russell was the original singer of " the Angel's Whisper;" and, although we have heard many attempt it since, we have never listened to any one with even patience, so im measurably behind has he left all, in taste, feeling, and ex pression. It will, no doubt, be introduced in the course of the evening. The lecture, on " character," is, we believe, of a very amusing character, showing the peculiarities of dif ferent people, their whims and oddities. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE.—The Com missioners of police for the township of Birkenhead, held a special general meeting in the Town-hall last night, for the purpose of winding up their affairs previous to the annual erection of commissioners, which takes place this day (Tuesday), John Deane Case, Esq. took the chair. The only business before the meeting was the completion of the rate-book, by inserting in it the names of all those house holders who had become rated since the 21st December last, to enable them to vote in the election. It was stated that since that time to the present, a period of little more than five months, there had been an increase of no less than 129 assessments, a striking proof of the rapid extension of the place. Some conversation of no public interest took place, at the end of which the book was signed by the commis sioners present, and the meeting separated. IRON.—We had an opportunity afforded us a few days ago of inspecting the extensive foundry and grate manufactory of Mr. Bennett, in Sir Thomas's-buildings ; we also were shewn through his show-rooms. Like everything else of late years, the hand of refinement, taste, and improvement is vi sible in that useful article the fire-grate, as well as every thing else that can be constructed of iron. Some of the grates pointed out to us we have never seen equalled in either beauty of workmanship, costliness of design, or ele gance in appearance. We observed some very excelluntly manufactured ovens and stoves, suitable to any sized kitchen. We also were shewn a very simple chimney-pot of Mr. Bennet's construction, which will complete a cure of the most obdurate smoky chimney, the effects exhibited in a working model are extraordinary, and, of course, must be to a great degree in the proper sized one. Those who are fur nishing should by all means pay this large and- well assorted establishment a visit. Economy, taste, and excellence ap pear combined. _ _ - VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A SURGEON On Friday an inquest was held before W.S. Rutter, E. on view of the body of Ruth Barnett, wife of James Bar nett, a ,"billy-slubber ," residing near Reddish_ lane, in Heaton Norris. It appeared t confined on Saturday morning, attended by Mr. Thomas Goulden, surgeon, of Stockport He visited her again on the following day, more until her death, on Tues I had i .hen she w ther He had sent her some pow- been sent for more thSn one ders and a bottle, which had caused violent purging ; ; Mr. Taylor and Mr. Bellott, surgeons of Stockport, v had examined the body, attribut to exhaustion brought - On by excessiv , and stated ' that with proper attention and the ordinary remedies might have been restored. After a prolonged inquiry, the jury found a verdict of "manslaughter against Mr. Goul den," and the warrant for his commitment was made out in the usual form, but it is understood that he will be - to bail A. I'ILUTIAN MUMMY IN LIV E RPOOL.—This very singu lar specimen of the art of embalming the dead, practised be fore and immediately after the flood, will be exhibited to the public on Wednesday evening, when .1. S. Thorburne, Esq., M.D., will explain the process of embalming, in the course of a popular lecture advertised to be given on mummies, and the conduct of men and nations to the dead and the dying. We do not know a more interesting subject for a soiree than this. In Paris and London, lectures on mummies attracted crowded audiences ; and among the throng were the beauty and fashion of the day, as well as the learned and the curious sight-seers, of all classes of society. From the I which the Peruvian mummy has obtained in connexion with a recent clever but most improper hoax played off upon the coroner and his amazed bed curiosity of tt will be doubly gratified by the forthcoming scientific inquest to be held, literally super visum corporis. THEATRE-ROYAL.—Mr. Anderson has been performing many of the leading characters in the drama during the past week. his most successful impersonation was Hamlet; — there was in it much of novelty, few mannerisms, and abun dance of talent displayed. Mr. Anderson, from his inordi nate admiratio n o f M r. M acrea d y , canno t forget him. Mac ready is ever before his eyes as his model. We can clearly see that if Mr. Anderson would throw off the trammels of imitation, and rely upon himself and his own abilities, he would spring up a splendid actor. A little salt is a good thing in savoury morsels, but a handful is nauseous. Mr. G. Vandenhoff appeared last night as Mereutio to Miss Julia Bennett's Juliet and Mr. Anderson's Romeo. On Wednesday Mr. Anderson takes his benefit ; and let us re peat what we said on Tuesday last—his remuneration for his ten nights' services depends upon his benefit receipts. The public, if they approve of the actor, will pull otit their mo ney—" prepare to shed it now." The cast of " Julius CEesar" on that occasion is, we think, a very great attraction. On Thursday Mr. Selby (who appeared here last night for the first time in one of his own clever farces) will perform in his new drama of " Maximums and Speciments of William Muggins," which has been very successful in London this season. It is an adaptation by Mr. Selby of his papers pub lished under that title in the Sunday Times. The ground work is the story of a poor boy elbowing his way through a youth of poverty, and temptation, and manifold hardship, to the quiet and comfort of a respectable station in life, where the audience loses sight of him, the title being founded upon his habit of entering in a well-worn pocket-book such max ims (with examples to match) as his social experiences from time to time suggest. This drama has occupied some time in getting up. Great attention is paid to the scenery, which is all of a novel character. BIRKENHEAD AND CHESTER RAILWAY.—A highly r.. spectable meeting of tradesmen, resident in the city of Chester, took place at the Royal Hotel, in that city, on Tues day last, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of promoting the carriage of goods on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway. Mr. M. Harrison presided on the oc casion, and he called upon Mr. Roberts, agent to the com pany, to state his opinion of the contemplated measure. Mr. Roberts said, after some remarks as to the advantages of railway over canal conveyance, that, according to the best calculation he could make, the aggregate maximum of goods, exclusive of grain, would be about 35 tons per day for Chester which traffic was worked by three modes of con veyance, viz. :—per canal, per Dairymaid steamer, up the river Dee, and via Rock Ferry per turnpike road. By the railway. if suitable arrangements were completed, thirty or forty tons per day might be readily conveyed, and even a much greater quantity, provided the mecha nical arrangements were upon an extensive scale. The leading grounds of objection at first to a goods' traffic, when the subject was first mooted, were that they could not un dertake to carry hogsheads of sugar, also puncheons of mo lasses. Now, the company have already conveyed, from time to time, without the slightest injury being sustained, puncheons of spirits, pipes of wine, and pieces of brandy, with the present limited resources ; that being the case, he thought he was warranted in stating that sugars and molasses would prove but small obstacles when aided by additional mechanical apparatus. The company have already realized by the carriage of goods of various descriptions, upwards of £1,500, which carriage was a spontaneous result, unaided by solicitation. Mr. Roberts also remarked that the river was held by many to be a fatal obstacle in the way of a goods' traffic per railway to Chester, but contended that mechanical means and appliances could be found capable of overcoming the difficulty. Mr. R. here explained his mode in detail, which satisfied the mind of Mr. Palin and the meeting gene rally. He was not prepared to say at present at what rates the company would carry per ton. It was said, at a subse quent period of the meeting. that the canal company carried at 10s. per ton, and that the railway co u ld carry f or l ess. The follow ing resolution was eventually carried :—" That this meeting view with satisfaction the movement made by the directors of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway towards establishing a goods' conveyance between Liverpool and Chester, and pledges its most of a rate of freight being fix, sidered reasonable and just.' DR. WESLEY, THE CELEBRATED tleman, who opened the new organ in the parish church of Walton on Sunday last, gratified a select auditory yesterday strenuous support, in the event , d which shall hereafter be con- I ST.—This gen- afternoon by a private performance cholas's chtirch. Dr. W ley has for some the first rank amongst provincial )rganists, and it is tice to his character to say, that his remarkable that noble instrument, the organ, fully justifies his eminent position. The instrument on which he performed is of very inferior power compared with that in the Town-hall of Birmingham, and many others that might be named • but, on the average, it is one with a co ns id era bl e variety oistops considering the period at which it was erected. The swell is inadequate to the size of the place to produce any very lively effect, and the diapasons have not that solemn fulness which falls with peculiar impressiveness upon the ears of those who are fond of sacred music. The trumpets and flute are not deficient in anything except volume ; the pedal pipes, on the other hand, are rich, and fill the place without producing the sensation of noise. The reed stops cannot be praised. Altogether, therefore, the organ is one from which none but a most superior player can produce effects that may be termed striking. Dr. Wesley commenced with a slow movement on the full organ, and before he had pro ceeded through many bars, the peculiar characteristics of his mode of performance began to develope themselves. A fugue, one, we think, of Sebastian Bach's, followed, in which Dr. Wesley displayed an amazing command over the instrument, and in which the only regret we felt was that he had not a more extensive range of stops wherewith to effect the unu sual combinations in which he evidently delights. Several other pieces were perfoamed, one in the minor, an andante from Haydn, and one of Handel's choruses, at the end of which the whole auditory retired, at once delighted and struck with an entertainment, if we may so call it, in which a good deal of the true philosophy of The prevailing features in Dr. Wesley's style are novel combi nation of stops, the almost imperceptible rapidity__ with which . share in bringing music was imparted to the m . he effects them, and the bold relief in which he works out harmonious whole. There the prominent passages in the music before . him. There is, gheanrtletnen as well as too, a pleasing distinctness in his cethelr 4r fu er ll ing, Whereby every note and chord are made to a c:vuetr e t hper several present w seemed greatly pleased with 1, teurs, all of whom seem Liverpool, Ur. Wesley has not beard ; and we caeanffnyencottscilnotsoe thisprofessional toan e bnef uotie.ci without stain.- previously acquired o th o a ly t, mbayinhtissioperde,sehnottvoisoitartgped; his repu tation. RANDOM THOUGHTS ON WEDNESDAY'S COUNCIL. t and foremost, gave expression to their and devotion to the throne, by voting an ulation to her Majesty on her escape from ,sassin, whom we would hang on the first the hands of an lamp-post—and no mistake Mr. G. It Lawrence gave a lucid account of the proceed ings of the Finance Committee, and of the bills now in pro- gress through parliament, notwithstanding he said he only " hinted at things darkly through the woods and forests." We could wish he were always as clear as on this occasion. The next thing worthy of notice fell from that oracle of " Mayor," about the Judges' F is of opinion it was more economical to .re to purchase it ; and, moreover, you ought fu, are unless you first bought a house 1" centr—ed wisdom of Castle-street Ward ! Every _.,ilts a house ought also to hire furniture ! Here the man " wot draws too much water for the port of Liver pool" interposed, and asked Mr. Bolton if he hired the furniture in Great George's-square, or if the house was his own? wisdom and A o-contuleace lodgings. hire furnit not to bt Bravo, co: man who re Roars of laughter followed the announcement of taking a Mr. Isaac Holmes on trial, in which the worthy councillor and namesake joined heartily. A member near us said, in an undertone, he hoped the young Isaac might prove as good as the old tried one. The taunts about the want of education, sneeringly thrown out by Mr. Aikin, show a want of breeding, and a degree of unbearable insolence quite in character with the tyranny inseparable from radicalism. \\Thence sprang a Cartwright and a thousand other shining lights, which have conferred honour, wealth, and greatness on their country? They were endowed with great natural talent, which they brought to bear for their own and country's good, in spite of the non eyistence of mechanics' institutes. Comparisons are odious, or we would make one ; so, vanish, you conceited and vain growler ! Mr. Birkett mixed rather too much cantharides in the dose for the retailer of blisters to the council. " Insidious! " fiercely exclaimed the blister man, and sank on his chair. It was too bad 'of Mr. Lloyd to knock him down again so soon after ; his utterance became choked, and the words died in his throat in the hasty attempt to apologise. Poor Mr. Earle ! Physiologists tell us, a pound and a quarter of iron can usually be extracted from the blood of one man. How much could be extracted, we ask, from Mr. Earle ? We guess all his veins are full of the lytta vesicatorious, and void of all fluid substance. Congestion of the brain he has long laboured under. We thin Ir. R. Gladstone's declaration was not a pru dent one, because more may, by inference, be drawn from it than this distinguished gentleman intended; for the rads are agitating on the strength of this to keep the Roman Catholic childred from the schools. The rook pies from old frank was very funny, and the wit about the poaching really killing. How is it the witty gen tleman ranks as a conservative, and votes against them ? We think the council acted a shabby part about the model of the courts of law. It is worth the money if it were only to gratify the public during the completion of tha building. Sir Joshua never made the sun to stand still ; but he caused gas to shine, and undertook to pay for it, which, shame to the knight, he never fulfilled. Aldebert, who pretended to have received a letter from our Saviour in the eighth century, direct from heaven, was not a greater impostor than our Sir Joshua. Why are the Roman Catholics ashamed of the name of Raman ? The closing scene of the council was truly grand. It may not be generally known the council patronizes Wilhem's sys tem of singing in classes, now so much in vogue ; and, by way of improving the oratorical powers of the members, as a finale, they all rose and adopted the same plan, by one and all speaking at the same time. One member, however, of somewhat diminutive stature, jumped with all the elasticity of a pulex irritates (which he very much resembles) upon a chair, and vociferated, " Mr. Mayor, you can't see me 1" " No," rejoined his worship, " but I bear you." Poor Richard Vaughan ! we have been assured the leap was caused by an involuntary motion of the muscles, owing to the recent daily practice of his standing on a chair to an artist, as a mo del for the statue of Achilles for the New Park. On one of these occasions he exclaimed, " A horse! a horse! my king dom for a horse !" This suggested the idea of an equestrian statue, which, by the way, at the request of his friends, he has consented to sg for, provided the artiat can model him— in what do you think—his gaiters, and on his own war horse! THE REVIEW OF THE CUEEN'S CHESHIRE YEOMANRY CAVALRY. The Queen's Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry, consisting of ten troops, which have been on permanent duty in this town, were reviewed on Bootle Sands, near the Landmarks, on Friday, by Lieutenant-Colonel Marten, 3d Dragoons, now quartered in Manchester. From the extreme loveliness of the day, a great number of persons were on the ground ; more, we should say, than on any former occasion. The scene was of a most animated and interesting description, particularly when the regiment was executing the various movements. veral carriages filled with fashionable parties. We observe , The Cheshil Yeomanry may compete in point of discipline and appearance, whether as respects horses or men, with any other cavalry in the kingdom. Cheshire may be proud of her yeomanry. The movements executed were nearly as follow : PARADE MOVEMENTS. 1 Rear Rank take Order. 2 Eyes Right, Draw Swords, (Officers Salute.) 3 Rear Rank take Close Order. 4 March past by Squadrons. 5 Form Troops, (Trot.) 6 Form Close Column. 7 Rank past by Single Files. 8 Advance in Column of Troops from the Right to Trot 9 Wheel into Line SWORD EXERCISE. 1 Single Files from the Right of Threes (March 2 Right Prove Distance. Slope SworC Distanc 7 First Divisiot (March.) WORDS OF COMMAND FOR FIELD 8 Second Division. 9 Front From Line MOVEMENTS AND EXERCISE. 1 Advance in Open Column from the Right. 2 Form Line to the Left on the new alignment. 3 Advance in Echellon from the Left. 4 Squadrons Right Wheel. 5 Form Line on the Third Squadron. 6 The Line will advance. 7 Open Column in Rear of the Left. 8 Close Column on the Third Squadron Left in Front. 9 The Column will Advance. 10 Deploy on the Third Squadron. 11 Ist Line, Open Column of Troops to the Left. 2nd, Retire in Column of Troops from the Right of the Fourth Squadron, and Form Line in Rear of the First. 12 The First Line will Attack to the Front, at the Halt, the Second will Advance by Threes from the Right of Squadrons, pass through the intervals of the First Line about 20 yards, and form to the Front. 13 2nd Line Attack to the Front, at the Halt Form inverted by the advance and wheel about of Troops, both Lines will then send out Skirmishers and commence Firing at each other for a short time at the Halt. 14 The First Line will Retire and at the bottom of the Ground call in Skirmishers, and by Threes change position Left Back. The Second will Form on its Left by Column of Troops Succession from the Right of Squadrons, when its bead arrives on the Left of the First it will Form Line to the Rear on the Leading Troop. 15 Change Front to the Right. 16 Close Column on the Fifth Squadron Right in Front. 17 Attack by Squadrons and Retire by Threes from the Flanks. _ . ------• W into 18 The Column will take Ground to the Right{ Line heel when 19 Advance in Column of Troopsfrom the Right at the Halt 20 The Line will Attack to the Front the Third Squadron directs. 21 Retire by Threes from the Right of Squadrons (and form _ . Line.). 22 Advance in Parade Order and Salute At the close of the review Lieutenant-Colonel Marten (who was accompanied by several other officers) addressed Colonel Egerton, and complimented him in very warm terms as to the efficiency and appearance of the regiment, and expressed his surprise to see several complicated movements so admi rably performed. Previous to separating the men gave three enthusiastic cheers. The proceedings, we are happy to say, passed off without any accident, and appeared to give great delight to the numerous assemblage. The " creature com forts" were not forgotten by the purveyors of substantials, several booths and stalls being erected for the accommoda tion of those who had " a penchant for beer." We ought not to omit noticing, in terms of commendation, the orderly and gentlemanly deportment of the Cheshire Yeomanry while in this town. CHURCH RATES.—Sir J. Easthope has placed on the Commons' book a notice, that on Thursday, the 16th of June, he will move for leave to bring in a bill " To abolish church-rates, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof, for the maintenance of churches and chapels in England and Wales." The forthcoming races, and the days on which they fall, are as follows :—Ascot, June 7 ; Hampton, June 15; Chel tenham, June 20 : Newmarket, July 5 ; Southampton, July 19 ; Goodwood, July 26 ; Brighton, August 3 ; and Egham, August 23. Tin; YEOMANRY OF ENGLAND.—We hare dwelt upon this point because it seems to us to be of cardinal importance in attaining a clear view of the whole course of the history of the English people. If there is one circumstance which peculiarly rivets the reader's attention, in consulting such contemporary authorities as bear on national habits, it is the superior condition of the body of the people in England to that in the neighbouring continental states. The great tier s-etat of this kingdoni seems to subsist in the same rude out substantial prosperity, nearly through all the revolutions which we survey. From the time of the Norman invaders to the present day, observers who have crossed the channel to our shores have made the same remarks on the flourishing Appearance of the great agricultural class. It was a charac :.; of England, quite as much in the days of feudalism, or of the Tudor monarchy, as it has been ever since the revolution ; and it is scarcely less absurd to attribute to that great event our deliverance from wooden shoes and soup maigre than to set down the character of the English yeoman as the offspring of the English constitution, of which it is in truth the cause. Had the warriors of Hengist and Horse subdued Britain in the same manner in which the Franks conquered Gaul, or the Lombards Italy ; had the Britons been reduced to the condition of the provincials on the con tinent; we might have had cities of more early greatness, freer municipal institutions, more relics of the grandeur and peculiar civilization of the dark ages, but we should not have had the English yeomanry ; and, wanting it, we should have wanted that which, in our fond belief, has rendered England, even from old, the paragon of countries.—Edinburgh Review. A GHOST OUTWITTED. — A short time ago a joke, too good not to be narrated, was played upon a jolly old worthy at one of our inns, in the town of . This scion of the Bacchanalian school, be it understood, laid siege to the bot tle and barrel for several days. Some of his red-nosed com panions being aware of the circumstance, and thinking that he was doing it rather too hard, agreed upon trying an ex periment to frighten him into a more sober way. Night being fixed upon for the joke, away they went to the inn described, and there they found his worship in a back parlour, quite in toxicated, and fast asleep. Whilst in this apparently happy state he was taken and placed full-length inside a coffin, which had been procured for the job. Having slept in this receptacle for the dead for some three or four hours he awoke, and upon raising himself up he gazed about him, first on one side of the coffin and then on the other, muttering to himself, as he viewed the melancholy piece of furniture, " Where am I ? Whare have I gotten to ?" Whilst in the act of saying so, a tall portly-looking figure, shrouded in a white sheet, walked from a large cupboard, and, box, faintly whispered, " You are dead." " Dead ! said Oil marching up , to s PS the disciple of Bacchus, fixing his eyes steadfastly P. object before him ; "Aye, ' an' boo lang , hae I d too?" " A week," answered the ghost. "An are a y d o hoo k i ng ban " Yes," replied the spectre. -‘ Hech, sirs, a s - a id the ghost. 1 3d ee c iaiu_cl°ead ?" ye been dead, 1 say ?" " A fortnight," B r than I do, " Here, then, lad," responded the interrocaettuor, putting his hand into his pocket, " ye ken , this place bring us twa battles o' This was too good for the ghost, and, before be could well get out of the room, he burst into an immoderate fit oflaughter.—Glasgow paper. CORRESPONDENCE. THE EDUCATION QUESTION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,--1 hope you will be kind enough to publish the fol lowing few remarks in your next journal, from a constant reader, and as they may cause some little odium to be cast upon you fo r th e p l a i n and constitutional language in which they are couched, I trust you will not consider it derogatory to your t rue Protestant principles to let this paragraph appear verbatim.—ln reading the proceedings of the last council meeting, on the confirmation of the report of the education committee, I was utterly amazed to see that derilection of a manly, constitutional, and true Prot es t an t p r i nc iple, mani fested by some sophisticated philanthropists who assume the name of Protestants and supporters of God's eternal truth. Now let us see how th e y support that truth, and how tht y protest against the doctrines of that man Pope Pius the 4th, the twelve articles of whose c ree d conta i ns every thing con trary to the true and inspired word o f G o d , and at the same time receiving that apost a ti z i ng support from the few deluded conservatives who now constitute a portion of our town council, whose pernicious sentiments, if promulgated in the present day, cannot fail to excite alarm in the minds of all who are alive to the interests and the religion of their coun try. Those nominal conservative councillors to whom I al lude are now in sound reality endeavouring, in their way, to introduce again those doctrines which do n o thi ng more than inculcate a spirit of reckless insubordination fraught w ith impiety—dissolving every social tie, and reducing men to the wild and lawless state of nature. Such doctrine as this they want to be openly taught in a Protestant country, which would be readily listened to and inculcated by the surpliced demagogues of popish thraldom. It is incumbent, there fore, upon the constituency of this great Protestant town t o antagonize such d angerous p r i nc ipl es an d diminish the force of those evils by marching up to our post of duty on the first day of November next, and record our 'votes for such gentle men as will not compromise their principles for all the expe diency man can invent. Again, their Protestantism consists in sitting in the council chamber and hearing the most sar castical, ironical, and irreverent epithets applied to our evan gelical and gospel ministers with impunity, and without the slightest emotions of a spirit of defence, and likewise in the non-co-operation with those gentlemen who, I am thankful to see, will not be shaken from , their principles by all the radical doggrel vented forth against them. Again, it has been mooted that a proposition is, or ought to be made, to admit all parties into the schools again ; if so, we then must withdraw our children again, and allow error to supersede truth again ; but I hope and trust the few stanch and un flinching members on . the education comm i ttee will no longer be gulled with such fallacious nonsense ; and in conclusion. I beg to say to those gentlemen of such easy Protestant be lief, " Do y e no t therefore err bec ause ye know not the scriptures nor the power of God"—Mark xii. 24. I could say much on this subject, but as a poor op era ti ve I am afraid you will consider this an intrusion In your esteemed j ourna l ; and although poor in pocket I have as rich a respect for the Protestant institutions of my country as the wealthiest gen tleman in the good old Protestant town of Liverpool.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant, A BURGESS AND PROTESTANT. Liverpool, 7th June, 1842. ORANGE PROCESSIONS, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD I find in a leading article in Saturday's Journal, headed Orange Processions," (after an insidious attempt to take credit for a concern for the public peace,) the following re marks on the Carpenters' intended procession : " We are sorry, however, to find that we had rather pre maturely given them credit for good sense, and that they have postponed their meeting only to ally it with everything absurd and offensive in a procession on the 12th of July, along with the orangemen, on the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. " This procession may end peaceably, or it may not. We rather fear it will not, and that a deliberate insult cannot be offered to one third of the population of the town, that third, as we are over and over again told by their libellers, the most ignorant, worthless, and excitable, without very serious re sults." There are two or three things in these remarks that I ob ject to. In the first place I cannot conceive how such a procession can be absurd. It may, perhaps, be offensive,, so offensive that in the editor's opinion it would be a deliberate insult to one-third of the population of the town. Suppose it is granted that it would thus insult so many of the popu lation, I think the other two-thirds have as great a right to commemorate the anniversary of an occasion which was the foundation of order and good government, as the first third has to celebrate the anniversary, on the 17th March, of their patron saint, coupling it with the fact that in that procession far more offensive emblems are displayed than are likely to be on the 12th of July. I think, sir, that it is such persons as the writer of the article alluded to that go far to cause suc h resu l ts as he anticipates The writer proceeds,— " But the thing is in itself, and apart from those feelings against which it is directed, most wicked and unpatriotic, and all the cant of charity and loyalty cannot disguise the deadly feeling of civil hate which is at the bottom of it." " Wicked and unpatriotic." I suppose this loyal editor considers it wicked to offend the feelings of his own party, and unpatriotic to carry emblems and make a public pro fession of loyalty. The carpenters and orangemen are good men and true, and will not be cowed by the croakings of the Journal raven. The procession I hope and believe will take place. Those who form it will not give cause for any breach of the peace ; if there should be one it will arise from a quarter which has never been backward in insubordination to law as well as in disloyalty.—l remain, &c., AN ENGLISH PROTESTANT, ORANGE PROCESSION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sin,—" Argus" having retired from the controversy he so foolishly provoked, I feel no desire to keep him before the public. He commenced by fancifully supposing I wrote to assist the STANDARD out of a dilemma, and ended by actu ally calling in the editor of the Journal to help him out of his. I will not break a bruised fly upon a wheel, but merely observe, with the best of good feeling, " Requiescal in pace." Being but a " Recruit," I tremble to break a lance with the Colossean editor of the Journal; but as a cat may look at a king, so I have ventured to look at the editor's perform ance, and observe as follows :—I wonder he did not find out on the 17th March that " public processions" were " sense less mummeries." I think the carpenters owe him nothing for his back-handed compliment ; for, in spite of the hint that the article was only meant to be laudatory, it strikes me they would have had no paragraph of praise had there not been a contemplated design to cast the reflection which follows. The Orangemen of Liverpool have no desire to offend. They stood the crooking of the thumb on last St. Patrick's day, when disloyal flags were paraded in front of the proces sion, and the British standard kept in the rear; and it is quite preposterous to talk of Englishmen being put down from exhibiting their loyalty because some men are " excit able"—l will not say ignorant or worthless"—to please even the editor of the Journal. We are told that the battle of the Boyne was a cenflict of nations. I contend it was a battle for principles. Englishmen and Irishmen were in both armies, although not in the same proportion. We mean no insult to the fallen ; but we cherish the recollection of that day on account of the glorious results which followed. Loyal Roman Catholics have been known to view it in this light, and if they are now altered, I hope their gratitude did not cool after emancipation and reform had been obtained. The editor shews his good taste in speaking with decency and re spect of one of England's kings, and gives applause to his general conduct. I hope his readers will imitate his example, and sink the " Dutchman" in the British monarch. We challenge no one ; we insult no one ; our wish is to march as a loyal body of Britons upon the anniversary of a day favourable to liberty and patriotism. It would be de grading our rulers to suppose they lacked either will or abi lity to protect us, so long as they countenance other bodies— perhaps not quite so loyal. With their permission, therefore, we will show our reverence for the m emory of that " great and good king," who won the lioyne, and saved our nation. —Your's, &c., - AN ORANGEMAN & PURPLE MARKSMAN. June 6th, 1842. The first navigition act in England was passed in the year 1386. ~Tiv e and twenty suits are entered in the Exchequer by the Attorney-General against landlords in the county Limerick, for recovery of advances out of the tithe million fund. The mar►iage of the hereditary Prince of Coburg, brother of Prince Albert, with the Princess Alexandria Louisa Ame lia, daughter of the Grand Duke of Baden, is to take place shortly. — A schoolmaster describing a money-lender, says, "He serves you in the present tense, he lends you in the condi tional mood, keeps you on the conjunctive, and ruins you in the future." --- It is — in contemplation, under the sanction of the Arch bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, as soon as funds can be raised, to build a sailors church on shore, i n the neighbourhood of St. Katherine's docks. _ in full ---- - There is now to be seen in a garden, then roperty of M rs. Toward, Stanhope, in Weardale, an appe, arly four inche s in circumference, and in a healthy state ; what make the cu riosity more striking is the fact of the tree being blossom. The Lord Lowther transport has just sailed for China, laden with upwards of a thousand tons of bread for the us e of the naval and military force there. She also carries out several of the flat-bottomed boats required for service in the Chinese rivers. A young man of Rheims, named Bernier, h av i ng received a sum of money for entering the army as a substitute, deter mined, portion of it in an intimacy a with a girl of licentious before his erea d , eapoadrtuforerto, formed the town. On the morning of the 25 th instant, after pass ing the night together in a house of ill fame, they went down into the common room, and each c a ll e d for a glass of brandy, but before either of them had drank another paramour of the girl came in, and she, in spite of the remonstrances of Ber nier, resolved to go away with him. Upon this Bernier, in his exasperation, took a pistol from his pocket, and dis charging it at the girl laid her dead at his feet. He attempted to fly, but was secured with the pistol in his hand. THE KING OF THE FRENCH.—A correspondent of a...! London Times says, in a letter to that journal, "the rumours which have lately gained current in London, as to the f t li ot health of Louis Philip, are, I regret to learn, 1143 ,! b 1 a Ma foundation. In spite of an appearance of strengtft been a jesty the King of the French has for some time Pr o o f un great sufferer, and his ailment has become a l' o u ' t a nd his easiness to his deeply -attached and devoted. o n n of physician a s affectionate family. At a recent consultation as general the features of his Majesty's disorder, :elusion arrive health, were narrowly examined. The f T oidty present was, by the distinguished members of the .s statemen on ample ate I m ake that the disease was dropsy. i and serious." authority. His Majesty's life maYeurn tel danger, but the coo Taint has pecostnLEsic._ immediate In the Court of A POPISH PRIEST EATING BI ; he ReV. Denis Magreevy , following H d 1 - -, to make the _ on. eorge an coc., and: Queen's Bench, on the 2nd inst. , " • j apology, for having was compelled the 1-1 ltar. " Mr. Han, for haying denounced bun further proceedings against me,. ted to forego ca l retraction were made by ohtibe in any having consented slandered the character of from d uneg m " I ' i t provided a public an cast upon um n he publications. c'criminal infor •me of the imputation s order for a . !nation Was ob which the self not only justified in declaring, but upon • d I feel my that I was misled in relation to Mr. taine , wledge, the a . of those • mote. t ng sympathy for some o f bound to ackn?that none Handcock, and ' I acted upon misrepresentations made to my parishion ers ancl u w ho I bad thought had been hardly treated ; rs an d flock, by an imprudent e . n fi n enced zeal for their pro and ' 1 transgressed the line of duty. I am now quite have 15 tection, Mr. Handco k' satisfied that . c s conduct was upright and ins eennder a ro partial, both as a magistrate and as a gentleman. The attack dsaisavow d to have been re made on up o on him by me i n the chapel yard I and in lati t I have now to expr ess m that I h ave been misrepresented. n elr.. y the slightest deg ree wou d d A very sincere regret for- having in . gentleman or i m p eached Handcock's feelings as & his character as a Magiatrate, and to, acknowledge his kindness and forbearance in not prosecuting the costs, as between attorney this information. I therefore consent p y Mr. Handcock in this proceeding, he havin;... kindly accepted this apology, and consented Uot to proceed further in this case. ~ and client,, he has incurred " DENIS MAGREEVIC.