The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-15 00:00:00

LIVE( FbR THI THZA )F HER ENGAGEMENT NJNG, the 15th instant, mence with the new Bur- AND LAST NIGHT n. THIS present FRIDAY the Entertainments will ct, letta of NAVAL ENGACi.r, admiral Kingstot —ieutenant Kingston . P MENTE Mr. Tilbury To which will be added, for the first time in iiis Theatre, a w Barletta, entitled CLUB LA DIE Major Mortar (of the Mrs. Fitzsmrtl Mrs. Wa . ylett, in which she will sing " I'll never be married again." In the course of the Evening, Mrs.. WAYLETT will sing Irish Ballad, " Kate kearney"—new Cavatina, " When Night Elves Dance”—Duet, •' Evening Bells," with Mrs. Barton—new Ballad, " I sigh for the 'Wciods." To conclude with the splendid romantic Drama entitled PETER WILKINS IN DIAN SI Mrs. Waylett. Phelim O'Scutl* Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. J. FOGG, at the Box office, from Eleven to Three. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d past Eight : Boxes, 2 Gallery OR Peter Wilkins Second Price, Half -Iy. ; no Second Price to the THE THREE CARACCI. -STREET SLATER UNION GRILLER ARRANGEMENTS having been made for the Exhibition of these Paintings in Glasgow, the Proprietor begs re speetfully to intimate, that they will be REMOVED at the CLOSE OF THE PRESENT MONTH. Jan. 7, 1840. JOHN BENTL TO CORRESPONDENTS EY, Keeper CLEARING,THE FOOTPATHS.—T. G. complains that while the inhabitants of the town are required by a 'bye-law to clear the footwalks opposite their houses, particularly after a fall of snow, and while too, a large sum is annually levied for scavenging, the public thoroughfares where there are no houses, have not, during the frost, been cleared of snow, and rendered safely passable. He instances the whole length of the footwalk on the east side of the east wall of Prince's Dock, and indeed the whole line of walk from the bottom of Chapel-street to the Clarence Dock have been left without cleansing by the police or proper authorities ; that they have been in a very dangerous state; and that delay in the transaction of business, and some serious falls, threatening limb and even life, have been the consequence. He thinks that if it be .not the duty of the police to do the needful, it would be well, at such a season, to employ a number of the destitute poor at moderate wages in the re. quired work " Query" will perceiv our last publication, a great measure, anticipa` - ' The lines on `;Farewell" next from -an. article yrilich appeared in ,at his communication has been, in 'e marked for insertion in our " An Inhabitant oi public on their guard a L in that neighbourhood, on the mornings of each Sunday collecting small sums, as he says, for the purpose of build ing a new church, to be called St. Mary's. This " church" is a Roman Catholic Mass House. have been induced to contribute Oder mites, under the idea that the proposed erection is to be in connection with the Established Church. If the individual alluded to has a spark of honesty about him, he will immediately refund those sums which have been given under this false im- 'oxteth Ward" wishes us to put the ..ainst a man who is going round, Many parties pression. Several poetical contributions which have been forwarded to us shall appear as soon as we can find room for them. Ebt R.tbrrpoot &tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1841 We have been favoured with extracts frOm a private letter, dated Monte Video, October 28. It appears that the steamer from Buenos Ayres had arrived on the day previous, bringing 220 passengers and accounts that the conferences between Admiral Mackau and Rosas had terminated on the 25tk of October, when the admiral presented an ultimatum which was to be replied to on the 28th, so that certain accounts migh be expected, in a day or two, whether there would bet peace or war. Up to the date received nothing was known as to what had been proposed There were no preparations made among the French vessels of war, of which 18 •were lying at Minte Video. It was therefore concluded that peace was to be made if pos sible. The next' accounts will probably announce the final adjustment of the affairs of Beunos Ayres. According to the last advises from Buenos Ayres no man was safe there that possessed any money, when a want fcr it was felt. It was no uncommon thing to see in the morning a dozen dead bodies, with their throats cut, thrown into the public ground. In our publication of last Friday we intimated the probability that a considerable increase of taxation must shortly be submitted to; and, at the same time, expressed our firm conviction that, even whilst impos- in; new burdens, it was in the power of a wise govern- ment to make such modifications of our existing sys tem of taxation as would give a material impetus to the manufacturing and commercial industry of the country We shall nose proceed, according to our pro Loise, to point out a feW'uf those duties to which we , then alluded, the modification or abolition of which would; we conceive, .be desirable, and the amount of which we would gladly see levied in some other and less objectionable form. The first to which we shall advert is the duty upon cotton woolthe staple of our most important manu facture. The impolitic nature of this tax—of all taxes, in fact, upon the raw material of, articles of export — was fully admitted by Lord Althorp, when conceding the abolition of the duty upon printed calicoes ; and a distinct promise was then held out that its continuance was to be merely temporary. Yet a period of nearly ten years has now elapsed, and no effort has been made to procure its repeal. The duty is one of that nature which does not press itself upon the attention of the masses, but effects its portion of mischief silently and unobserved. Its pressure affords no handle by which hired agitators or an incendiary press can work upon the passions of the many-headed multitude; and hence, it is left out of the catalogue of grievances with which these ingenious gentlem( en, from time to time, enliven'the dullness of this dull world. It yields to overnment; and hence the consideration of its repeal is gladly postponed by the considerable revenue philosophers of Downing-stree whose concessions are generally regulated in accordance with the amount of popular clamour which can I be brought to bear upon them, and uniformly take the direction which is pointed out to them by trading agitators and political quacks, in preference to that which a careful regard to the permanent interests of the community would dictate superficial. observer it may, indee6, 1. be said that a tax of one-eighth of a penny per pound upon raw cotton cannot press very heavil y upon the commu- iclually, or even upon any particular classes We admit that it does not press very severely upon the British consumer of cotton goods; yet, so far as its pressure is felt, the cotton duty. may with perfect pro priety be designated a poor man's tax. The rich can not estimate it in the %Try triflingly advanced price of the few fabrics of cotton which they consume; but it enters more largely into the price of the working man's clothing—into the price of his fustian trowsers, his cotton shirts, and the wearing apparel of his wife and family, which, in nine cases out of ten, are exclusively composed of that fabric. It is not, however, this inequality of which we corn- plain. It is not as it affects the consumers at home that the tax is impolitic, hut as it affects the manufac turing interest, from the merchant downward to the operative classes It is impolitic, inasmuch as at least three-fourths of the whole amount which it produces is levied upon the export trade of the country, and is extracted from the profits of the merchant and the ma- nufacturer, hid), we fear, is nearer the truth-- from the wages of the labourer. It is a direct bonus given to the foreign producer at the expense of native industry —if not of native capital ; and it operates precisely against those fabrics most—(the coarse and heavy descriptions of cloth and yarns)—in which we are the least able to bear competition with foreign rna- nufacturers On this ground, alone, a due regard for the corn- inerce of the country imperatively demands the remo val of the duty. It is a fact, well known to most of our exporting merchants, that for years past the foreign demand for our heavy cloths has been gradually de- creasing, and t now al►nost entirely disappeared lat the profits upon these articles have and although the decline of this branch of commerce may, to some extent, be irremediable —o win facturing g to the rapid growth of inanu- ind►istry amongst other nations, and the _ _ adaptation of their tariffs to protect that growth by excluding those fabrics which require the smallest por tion of skill, and arc within the scope of their infant manufacturei —yet it is evidently the duty of the go vernment of this country to take care that such decline is not accelerated by the impolitic continuance of this tax upon the raw material. We might instance, along with the cotton duty, a number of other .imposts, levied upon articles almost exclusively used for manufacturing purposes, and from which a very inconsiderable amount of revenue is de rived, the reduction of which would be received as an mportant boon to the manufacturing interest, as well are the cut - - most of them the products of our colonial possessions, and extensiv eiv used in the :tang, a woollen .ent processes of dye- applied both to cotton and to o give a very mat nd domestic trade of ti ggestions, it may be urged materially affecting the revent ial impetus to the foreign cauntrT In advancing these few su that ours is not the source from whence they ought to originate. The manufacturing interest, we may be told, should be the first to speak out on matters which so largely affect their immediate prosperity. We admit that such ought to be the case, although we may re mark that Liverpool is also largely interested in any question affecting the foreign trade of the country. The towns of Manchester, Bolton, Preston, &c., should undoubtedly take the lead in advocating, through their representatives in parliament, these and similar mea sures of financial reform ; but the fact is undeniable, that if even poi sessed of the will —if ready to lay aside the dishonest outcry against the corn-laws, which a factious liberalism holds out to the deluded people as the universal panacea for all the evils which its own imbecility has created,—the large manufacturitig towns have no influence in the House of Commons. The race of shallow.and impertinent gabblers, who presume to represent the opinions and wishes of the manufacturing interest ;,—the Philipses, the Gregs; the Ainsworths, t hoc genus omne,—are perfect ciphers in St. Stepheies; and if the model of a spinning jenny or a power-loom could he placed in a conspicuous position in front of the Speaker's chair, to remind the house tl t the ma- nufacturing and commercial interests of the country require occasionally the notice and the aid - of the legis lature, we could well dispense with the whole brood of them, for any benefit which their various constituen- cies derive from their legislatorial wisdom. We were told indeed the other dav that one of these enlightened gentlemen—Mr. Mark Philips—had actu ally, on two different occasions, -during the ten years for which he has represented•the borough of Man chester, done—what, reader ' Twice, this eminent vender of tape and fringes had actually—placed a notice of motion on the books to repeal the cotton duty ! Actually written . six or eight lines, in the orthodox form of a notice, and signed his name or his mark at the bottom ; and as deliberately withdrawn the same, as a matter of course, on receiving a minis terra.'-rii - nt that the subject was inconvenient, accompa nied perhaps with an invitation to dine at Lansdowne House, or the offer of a presentation at the next draw ing room. When the commercial interests of the country are resigned to the guardianship of such legis lators—when this noodle race of statesmen are recog nised as the exclusive organs of the national industry, we shall indeed have sorry hopes of witnessing much change for the better in our commercial or financial policy. We shall return to this subject again, in order to no- tice the operation of one class of duties in particular which more immediately concerns our own commu nity. We allude to the stamp duties upon bills of lad ing and policies of marine insurance, which we believe to press with very prejudicial effect upon our merchants and shipownera; and we need scarcely remark upon the importance, at the present moment, whilst menaced with the prospect of . a foreign war, of cultivating assi duously the interests of the latter class—the owners of our commercial marine. Looking, as England must look in every emergency, to her _navy for protection, a wise and paternal government ought undoubtedly to value and to study the prosperity of the merchant ser vice as the nursery of the seamen who man our fleets in the day of peril ; and that prosperity, we trust, we shall be able to show, on a future occasion, may be materially advanced by a modification of tbe duties in question We hope that by the appointment of a committee to examine fairly and candidly the merits and disadvan tages of the vexata questio of the Dock Warehouse Scheme, some amicable compromise may be made between the belligerent parties, so as to prevent the unnecessary waste of public as well as private money in a three months' fight before the House of Commons. This subject ought to be settled in Liverpool, because, if two parties go to London to quarrel there, the land holders of Cheshire and Lancashire will step in and carry away the kernel, while the people of Liverpool are wrangling about the husk. The question is one of considerable difficulty. The town of Liverpool, with its increasing trade, has an undoubted right to adopt every improvement for facilitating commerce : but it must not do so to the ruin, or even injury, of those who have embarked their money during the last century in giving those facilities which the public bo dies until within. the last few years were unable to bestow. If warehouses are necessary, they ought, in justice to those who have so large an interest in that description of property, as well as to the merchants who do not want warehouses at all, or who have al ready warehouses of their own, to be built out of a newly-crehted trust, and not out of the general dock estate. They may, to secure uniformity of manage ment, be placed under the control of the Dock Com mittee; and they ought to be authorised to borrow money on security of that property alone, and not on the credit of the whole estate. Many may say they cannot mortgage the docks and warehouses for the entire cost. Mr. Evans, however, says that they will yield 15 per cent. ; and, if so, a great surplus revenue will accrue, which may go to liquidate the bonded debt. A change in the constitution of the Dock Trust must also take place. It ought to consist of .thirteen ratepayers and eight councillers—not eight self-elected aldermen, but eight popularly-elected councillors; and, lest the mercantile interest should reduce rates too low, the Town Council ought, as at present, to have a veto on their proceedings. This question might have been settled last year had anybody else than Mr. Evans been entrusted with it ; but as this gentleman was determined to run a-muck against every vested inte rest, and carry everything in his own way with a high hand, the Dock Trustees were shamefully foiled—as they will be again, unless they, as well as the ware house-owners, are disposed to concede a little. We repeat that this question ought to be decided in Liver pool, not in London. • At the Council Meeting on Monday after considerable discussion had taken place, as to the propriety of the Mayor's attendance on the committee appointed on the motion of Mr. Earle, his worship made the following remark in reply to Mr. Bushell "Mr. BUSHELL disapproved of the mayor's attendance on that committee, because it would give a preponderance on the side of warehouses. If the council had a pledge from the mayor that he would not attend the committee, then it would render unnecessary the addition of another member ; but, unless lie did that, it would be necessary to have another, in order, to equalize the numbers. The MAYOR most readily met Mr. Bushell's suggestion, and he hoped the council would excuse his attendance." Why did his worship take a part in the proceedings of the committee •on Wednesday last ? Let him be ware how he interferes with the deliberations, from which he has given a solemn pledge to abstain. A body of insane individuals—we call them " in sane" on the authority of Lord Melbourne—who have formed themselves into a society, under the designa tion of the " Liverpool Operative Anti-Corn-Law As sociation," held a public meeting on Wednesday even ing, at the Music-hall, for the purpose of petitioning the legislature for a total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws, and also to address the electors of Walsall in favour of Mr. J. B. Smith, the " insane" candidate for the representation of that borough. The president of this "insane" meeting was Sir Joshua Walmsley, who has had the Quixotic hardihood to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of Liverpool. The proceedings at the meeting to which we refer are scarcely worth anything like a serious remark. The usual stock of declamatory abuse of the landed and agricultural interests was expended on this occasion, while the silly and fanciful dogmas of the self -conceit ed free-trade philosophers were duly uttered with most oracular gravity. Sir Joshua spoke with a degree of enthusiasm on .the subject of the corn-laws, which strongly reminded us of the emphatic declaration of Lord Melbourne—that none but an insane person could think of abolishing the corn-laws. The would be member for Liverpool congratulated the working classes on their advocacy of the anti-corn-law nostrum; that is to say, he congratulated them upon the prospect of low wages and ruined trade —upon the discourage ment of British industry, the abstraction of British .tal, and the pn, min trade and mow !g of Liverp( re such madmen gs to wishi to bring down these consequenc facture upon their own time ch .t is not our fault : but we thin better of them as a class than to sup' ) oblivious of th ;e that they can We feel surprised that Sir Joshua Walmsley should have given utterance to the shallow sophism that " the corn-laws had enhanced the price of food, and obliged the community to pay almost double for the necessa ries of life n. the price of corn, instead of being as it now was at 60s. and 70s. per quarter, would, with a free trade, be down at 405." It is scarcely consistent with Cocker to say that 60s. is nearly double 40s. ; nor is it consistent with fact to assume that from 60s. to 705..1s the average price of corn under the operation of the corn-laws : from 50s. to 60s. would have been much nearer the truth. Still less is it consistent with reason to assert that corn would be absolutely cheaper under the operation of the free-trade principle. Rela tively it would be so for a season that is to say until a monopoly of the supply could be secured by foreign growers and English importers of grain. But even supposing that the price of corn could be permanently kept down—which could never be done unless an unre stricted supply could be secured—the working classes would derive no benefit whatever from the relative cheapness of that necessary of life. It should be re membered that the Anti Corn-Law league would never have expended a farthing in agitating the question of a free trade in corn, if they did not calculate upon such a reduction of wages as would enable them to compete with the foreign manufacturer. We intreat the work ing classes not to suffer themselves to be gulled on this point. Let them reflect whether, with a reduction of Gs. Bd. in the pound in the amount of their wages, a reduction to the same extent in the price of corn would be any benefit to them. The thing is palpably prepos terous. We feel no surprise, however, when we find Sir Joshua Valinsley declaiming against the protection of forded to' our colonial prod The free trade piffle- sophers are certainly consistent in one thing:--:they profess the most ineffable hatred towards every thing which is of essential advantage to Great Britain. They would fling British agriculture to the dogs, and would express no concern if all our colonial territories were submerged in the depths of the ocean. " Success to foreigners" seems to be their ruling maxim. They say that if we could take the productions of other countries, duty free, in exchange for ours, we should have more manufactured goods to return to them." Indeed ! How much more of our manufactures was taken by the corn-growing countries of the continent during the time that corn was introduced free of duty into Great Britain ? Had we not to pay six or eight millions of hard cash for foreign corn in the course of 1838 and 1839 ? If the productions of other countries were introduced, free of duty, for home consumption, what would be the inevitable consequence ? Foreign manufacturers would immediately undersell us in our own markets. It is utter nonsense to assert that with all the appliances of British skill and industry, and with wages reduced to starvation point, we could com pete with foreign manufacturers. Labour must neces- sarily be cheaper on the continent than in this country, even supposing the trade in corn to be perfectly free. The large amount of taxation necessary to pay the interest of the national debt renders it impossible that we could compete with the lightly taxed manufactu rers of the continent. But this is not all. The mere addition of the cost of freight and the importers' pro fits to the price of foreign corn must rendez: corn dearer in this country. The consequence of the free trade principle would therefore be, that the cabinet-makers, shoemakers, tailors, saddlers, coSchmakers, and hatters of Hamburg, Bremen, and other parts of Germany, would supersede the same classes of British tradesmen ; Belgium would obtain a monopoly in the iron market; and France, Belgium, and Prussia would exclusively supply this country with manufactured fabrics in silk, wool, and cotton. That man must certainly be "in- sane" who imagines that such a state. of things would be of any advantage to this country. We cannot but admire the candour displayed by Sir Joshua Walmsley in preventing any opposition to the views which he propounded to the "insane" meet ing of Wednesday evening. The mild and gentle manly tones in which he threatened to eject Mr. Palmer and another gentleman from the meeting ex hibited in a strong light the amenity of his dis Position the urbanity of his manners, and the strict imparti ality of his conduct. It would scarcely have suited his purpose to allow any one to undeceive the working classes on the subject Or the Anti-corn law humbug. He acted most prudently in refusing a hearing to Mr. Palmer. It would have been inconvenient to have permitted that gentleman to demolish the flimsy and shallow reasonings of our would-be representative. His command over the police saved him from this 'painful humiliation. We observe that the corn• law repealers concluded their procpedings on Wednesday by giving " three cheers for the Repeal of the Union." This fact con vinces us that the operatives of Liverpool had nothing to do with the meeting. It was evidently composed of Mr. Rosson's Irish brigade. We can scarcely believe that any decent English operative would venture among such a set of vagabonds. Any resolutions emanating from such a meeting, even with Sir Joshua Walmsley as president, must be unutterably contemptible. We understand that it is the intention of many in fluential natives of the Principality, resident in this town, shortly to convene a public meeting, for the pur pose of petitioning the legislature against the -propos'ed scheme for uniting the dioceses of St. Asaph and Ban gor, and of abstracting from the amount of their sine cure incomes, for the support of a bishopric at Man chester, whilst so many livings in North Wales remain so inadequately endowed. We are glad to hear that a provisional committee has already been formed, and that steps have been taken to insure the attendance of several eloquent opponents of the above obnoxious plan. We shall feel happy in rendering all the assist- ante in our power to forward so praiseworthy an object as that which our Welsh friends have in contemplation. 'The inhabitants of several places in North Wales have already taken the initiative in this matter; and we have no doubt that the exertions already commenced will be followed . up with becoming spirit by the Welsh inhabi tants of Liverpool. We trust that one of the first topics that will engage the attention of Parliament, during the approaching session, will be the progress of the repeal agitation in Ireland. A glance at any of the Irish papers of the present week will convince even the most sceptical that the spirit of disaffection is rapidly spreading, in every direction, throughout Ireland. - At the great meeting which took place last week in the county of Westmeath, upwards of. 50;000 persons attended. When appealed to by Mr. O'Connell, this vast multitude declared them selves unaniirously in favour of repeal. It is now as evident as daylight that the Popish hierarchy and priest hood are decidedly in favour of the repeal movement. The dinner given the other day at Mullingar was at tended by great numbers of these reverend and right reverend agitators, all of whom spoke, in the most un equivocal terms, in favour of separation from England. For instance, Dr. Higgins, the titular Bishop of. Ar• dagh, declared that the Roman Catholic Bishops "would never be found to stand aloof, when the cause of the nation and the interests of their people were in ques tion ;" adding that they had the example of some of the Popes of Christendom, who boldly advocated the rights of, their people." But, as if these boasts *ere not sufficiently explicit, he - proceeded to say—" We look upon the pad which we are now taking in the struggle as an imperative duty, and we have one and all arrived at the determination of becoming repealers, because we have ceased •to place hope on any other efforts." - Is this language sufficiently strotik* to 'convince tile Globe and Morning Chronicle that the priests are•at the bottom of the repeal movement ? If it be not, we request the attention of the ministerial scribes to the speech of another titular, delivered at the same meeting. The Right Rev. Titular, Dr. Cantwell, of Meath, said—" I am convinced that the repeal is a holy cause, for I am of opinion that it is the only, means by which we can hope to make our country prosperous —our people happy—and the throne more secure. We will, then, one and all, priests, bishops, and people, unite in a cause that is to bring happiness to our native land." This plain and intelligible language must surely dispel the delusions of the ministerial press. It proves that the or t4e en ever hilly' Ly cant a , mberniont in view, hoy !curar o At the meeting to which we have referred, the titular of Ardagh boasted, that in his dioc AlOne, he cot number one hundred clergymen repeaters, and ex pressed a hope, that before many months should pass away, he should be enabled, with the assistance of his clergy, to enrol four hundred thousand. repeaters. When such boasts are thus openly made by the !tarn ish pretates - of Ireland, it is high time to draw the at tention Of Parliament to the subject of this repeal movement. We trust that a single week will not be allowed to elapse before some spirited member of the House of Commons will boldly take up the question, with a view to the interference of the government. Let the boasted loyalty of the Melbourne ministry be tested upon this subject. LOCAL NEWS We are glad to perceive that the key. D. James and the churchwardens of St. Mary's, Kirkdale, are collecting funds to relieve the poor of that populous suburb, at this inclement season. Mr. James is to preach on their behalf on Sunday nest. 'lt would be well if church collections were to be ge- neraliy made,—the churchwardens distributing the funds so raised to the many who are now sufferers ; and. especially to those whose necessities require to be sought out. it is in this way that the Church of England would prove " a blessing to those who are ready to perish." , TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT TO JOHN DIXON, ESQ., EN- GINEER TO THE BIRKENHEAD RAlLWAY.—Passing Mr Doke the silversmith's shop in. Lord-street, yesterday, on attention was drawn to a very handsome sil . ver salver ex hibited in the window. giOn inspecting it we found the fol lowing inscription, neat displayed in a circular shield in the centre :—" This slight testimonial of affectionate regard pre sented to John Dixon, Esq., civil engineer, by his pupils, at the close of the works on the Chester and Birkenhead Rail- way, January, 1843." The salveris executed in Mf. Poke's first style; it is costly and tasteful, and will form a useful and ornamental appendage to a sideboard. The value is 30 guineas CAUTION.—There appeared in the Guardian of Saturday a paragraph, copied from the lirmingham Advertiser, re specting•a_robbery.committed ;it the house of Mr. Sr,"' New Inn, Brea Smith, 5,n pro- grove-street.Arminglom,.by a k fessing to be a Fienchnian, OS had been stopping .there a short time. A persofiexactlyantwering the description took lodgings at No. 44, Dale-street, on Wednesday last, under the name of Mr. Charles, stating that he had just arrived by the London train, and represetaing, himself as a traveller in the shawl trade. He left the house on Friday afternoon, and returned in a few minutes, ying he was compelled by 2 circumstances to leave Manchester that day, paid t•nnourably, and wished the landlady (Mrs. tied until his return, which would be at the same time, to pay a the apparent honour - She had oc= when si his lodgings very Barnes) to reserve his on Tuesday Without tail, offerin week's board in advance ; but she, see ~ of her lodger, declined to r e c e iv e th e mot casion to go up stairs shortly afterwar certained that Mons single-breasted surtou perty of a boarder ed off with a blael nd a black velvet waistcoat, the pro Charles had w Myddelton Jones been learned, that he booked himself for Liverpool the same evening. Mr. Jones was possessed of an accordion, which he was playing on Thursday night, when Mr. Charles ex pressed his particular attachment to musigue; and he proved his attachment, by carrvine off the instrument, alone with . • the coat and waistcoat. No doubt, before this time ' some body in Liverpool has experienced the benefits of his . pa tronage.—Manchester Guardian. LAWTON'S GAME PIES.—" Mine host of the Rainbow,' William Lawton, deserves a patent of nobility for manufac turing Christmas pies. They occu-py the attention of all e-pi -cures. They are most piquant in flavour, and we pi •ty any body who wants'a pi -lot to point the way to them, or a pi-oneer to cut into their recesses. Such estimable works as Lawton's cannot be pt-rated. • There is no gam-mon in these game pies, which, punning apart, ought to be placed on the pi-nnacle of game. DANCING.—Mr. Harwood'S classes, we perceive, will shortly be recommenced. There are few professors of the art of dancing so well qualified as himself to impart graceful deportment and that air of ease and propriety which, if taught early. in life, often in mature years proves a passport to good society. TESTIMONIAL TO SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY.—The prize " Englynion " composed by " Penfelyn," in honour of Sir Joshua Walmsley, for his kindness and hospitality shewn to the Welsh bards, at the Eisteddvod last year, has been printed in gold, and a copy may be seen in the window of the STANDARD Office. This elegant mark of respect was execute at the STANDARD printing-office, and we think lay, claim to admiration for its richness and taste. The original was presented to Sir Joshua last week, in an extremely hand some oak frame : and we believe he is very much gratified at this acknowledgment from tUe Ancient Britons. The Rev. W. Farley, curate of Mottram, having been appointed to the curacy of Trinity Church, Salford, was pre sented, by the poor attending Mottram Church,. with a purse 25 sovereignss, accompanied with an address ex -nye of-their regret at his removal, and of their gratitude 'ealous and kind services amonc , them. The teache , Sunday School, at aim with an elegantly bound poe' of their regard for his valuald may fairly containing of the Church he same time, presented t bible as a small tribute chool.--- sistance in the .211auchestir Guardia SQUINTING.—The removal of this disfigurement in the personal appearance . of individuals is now beginning to be generally appreciated. The success• which attends the opera tion, arid the high gratification, it yields to the - patient, are in themselves a high recommendation. A fellow-citizen and neighbour, who laboured under extreme obliquity of vision, has, under the scientific operation of Mr. Bainhrigge, of Liverpool, been entirely relieved of an intolerable squint, suffering, as he expresses himself, more inconvenience than pain during the operation. We understand that Mr. Peacock, the skilful house surgeou of. our infirmary, has provided himself with the proper instruments, and is ready to perform the desirable operation on any one that offers.—Chester Chronicle. PILOTAGE.—IMPORTANT SUGGESTION.—We have con versed with several captains of vessels, and particularly with Captain John GoWan, of the Falcon steamer, running be tween this port and Belfast, on the subject of the charges for pilotage out of and into this harbour. Captain G. states, that at Belfast the charge fur piloting steamers is reduced one-third, in consideration of the pilots having less trouble in bringing them out of and into port, than they have with other vessels. .A sailing vessel, too, if the captain of her re quires a steam-tug, and obtains one, is charged only the pilotage required from a steamer, one-third being deducted, to go towards the cost of the steam-tug. In Belfast, too, there is no charge of pilotage required, for a steamer, if she does not take a pilot, but works her own way in and out. Here, if a steamer is once seen and recognised outside by a pilot-boat, she is charged the full amount of pilotage, even if she passes the boat and does not receive a pilot on board. Captain G. is of opinion that the reduction of the pilotage on steamers or ships towed by steamers iS reasonable and just, and ought to be adopted by the pilots committee of this port. It would be an inducement to captains to employ steam-tugs, and thus ensure the safer and speedier entrance or departure of their vessels, when they might otherwise be deterred by the heaviness of the expense. The time and trouble saved by the pilots, by : the employment of tugs, is also a consideration in favour of the reduced expense. It is somewhat remarkable that on Thursday night, while Cap tain Gowan was expressing to us a wish that his suggestion might be thrown out, the captain of a barque from Bahia, belonging to Messrs. Miller. and Russell, cam e up, and stated that while outside that day, h e h a d refused to take a steam-tug, under the impression that he would easily reach the river with the same tide. Unfortunately, however, the wind became south easterly, and the consequence was the vessel got upon the East Wharf bank, where she then lay, and as the tides are taking off, and will yet fall about two feet, if she were not got off soon, there is no saying what may be the damage she will sustain, or the cost the owners may incur in the event of the weather becoming stormy. The employment, indeed, of steam-tugs, ought, we think, for the safety of shipping, and consequently for the general benefit of the port, to be encouraged by all reasonable means, and the charging of steamers, or of vessels towed with the same pilotage as vessels worked out or in under sail, appears to be so far an unjustifiable tax upon the proprietors. The saving of a tide, and even sometimes of a single hour, may enable a vessel to dock,a day or half a day sooner; and may in some cases save a vessel from loss or damage, should it come on to blow, and bringing her cargo to an earlier and more pro fitable market. It should be considered, too, that the cap tains of our regular trading steamers are themselves nearly all as well acquainted with the channel as the pilots. We shall probably hereafter revert to the subject of pilotage ge nerally. Meantime we submit Captain Gowan's suggestion to the serious consideration of the committee.—From a Cor respondent. MEETING OF TILE DOCK COMMITTEE.—The dock Com mittee held their weekly meeting yesterday,. at the office, in Revenue-buildings. Mr. Benn, the deputy-chairman pre sided, and the following members were also present :—Messrs. Barclay, T. Holt, H. Holmes, Middleton, Smith, Booth, Horsfall, Mellor, G. Holt, Evans, Martin, Ripley, and Tobin. 'The usual routine business, such as the passing and confirmation of accounts having been disposed of, a report from the sub-committee of works was presented, recom mending certain alterations to be made on the quay of the Queen's Dock. Mr. Evans, hoviever, suggested that in con sequence of what had recently passed in the council, it would be desirable to set aside all intended alterations on the dock quays, at feast for the present. This suggestion was adopted, and the report merely received. Several letters and reports were read concerning the location of lire-engines at some of the graving docks; and also a proposition to board up, on the west side for the sake of protecting goods against the weather, th e s hed on the west side of George's dock. Both these subjects were referred to the sub-com mittee of works for their determination thereon. The sub committee, for the department of the harbour and dock master, reported that they had investigated a complaint made by Henry Hughes, a pilot, against the pier -master of George's pier, and h a d dismissed it ; also that they had in vestigated a charge preferred against the pier -master of Queen's pies:, of having received 5s from the master of the ship Newport, contrary to the bye-laws, and that the charge had been proved. The penalty for this offence is instant dismissal, but the subcommittee, in consideration of this being the first offence of the pier -master, during thirteen years' service, recommended the general committee to severely reprimand him, And admonish him, as to the conse quences of any similar offence in future. The pier -master was accordingly called in, and reprimanded by the chairman. On the recommendation of the same sub-committee, Richard Williams, a dock-gateman, was discharged for having been in toxicated at tide-time, on 31st of Dec. last, and on the Ist Jan. inst. The sub-committee of works presented a report, from which it appeared the master of Waterloo and Victoria docks, having requested an advance of salary, the sub-committee proposed that for the future he be remunerated as the master of Prince's Dock, after the rate of a farthing per ton upon the tonnage worked by the docks, with zf..:-10 a-year addi tional for house rent. It was stated that at present he re ceived £240 per nnnuni, including a house. Mr. Evans thought that the tendency of the system of paying so much per ton was to overcrowd particular docks. Mr. Horsfall said it certainly was attended with some inconvenience, but in the whole it was found the best plan in practice. Mr. Ripley disapproved of it. The Chairman objected to it on the ground that it sometimes occasioned disputes, and that much valuable time was necessarily consumed by the dock master in ascertaining the amount of tonnage to which be was entitled. Mr. Evans sa id, unquestionably this was not the best system, as the dockniaster by it was naturally agi tated by a sense of hi s ow n interest, and therefore could not give his undivided attention to his strict duty. The re port was then referred back to the Sub-committee, with in structions to revi se t h e whole sys tem of paying docki nas t ess , some of whom it appears are paid by a fixed salary and others by a per centage on the tonnage. An application from the . master of the American ship Rob Roy for the return of some graving dock dues paid by him under ,the circumstances de tailed in his letter, was referred to the Sub-committee for the Harbour Masters' department. The committee then adjourned. beg to draw attotttion to Mr. Slmde'l vertisoment of plano.forteg. • From Ws • steel; a good ill , - rurnent may ue chosen at a very low price We can, front experience, highly recommend Mr. Egglb-, ston's Vegetable Paste as a cure for the tooth-ache.—See adv. PORTRAIT ON THE GREAT LIVERPOOL.--*-A very cleverly drawn and faithful port ra it of th e G rea t Li ver pool steamer, drawn by .Mr. Kempe (her second officer), has just made its appearance. This sketch is spirited. In the back-ground we have a view of the city of Malta. The middle is occu pied by the steamer, while the foreground is judiciously re lieved by two or three small Maltese craft. The original drawing has been charmingly resketched on stone, by that very clever - artist, Ilerdman. This lithograph will enrich the portfolio of any collection. PIANO-FORTE TUNING.—There 'is nothing so indispen sable to the attainment cf a good ear for music, in learners, as the perfection of an instrument. Very often we have remarked instruments to be somewhat out of tune, when.the reply has been, " Oh, Mi ss S o - an d-S o i s on ly learning." We make this remark, as we perceive Mr. Venables, the instrument-tuner, from Chester, has become a resident here, and has commenced business, under very good auspices. He possesses great musical knowledge, both theoretical and practical, and therefore is. well able to perform whatever he professes. LIVER THEATRE.—" Peter Wilkins," the most popular of all popular fail'y tales, has been most excellently drama tised at. the Liv er . The scenery is really beautiful, the greater portion of it has been painted for the occasion. Mrs. Waylett plays Peter with great naiveté and spirit. Mrs. Barton plays Eureka very nicely. The duet sang by Peter and his winged love is very pretty. Mr. C. Marshall quite surprised us as The Wild Man. He is equal to Gouffe in activity. The sleeping scene is very amusing. Mr. Ray mond as an Irishman, Mr. Tilbury as a cautious Scotchman, and Mr. II iggie as a cockney, were diverting in the extreme. This is one of the best pieces produced this season, and draws a tremendous half price. The first piece---" Mary the Maid of the Inn is a drama that cannot fail to delight all who are fond of tile horrible.—Mrs. Waylett to-night takes her benefit ; . so sweet a singer ought to be encouraged. We believe she will introduce, in the course of the evening, a new balled, of Mr. Lee's composition, called " I sigh for the Woods." —On Tuesday evening, the ,eason took place at the ily the best of the SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT third subscription concert of the Theatre Royal. This concert wa season. It went off admirably, and appeared to give ye general satisfaction. The overture to William Tell was e cored. The precision and spirit with which it was given did the orchestra infinite credit. Bishops old but charming ballad of " Meet Again" was delightfully sang by Miss Woodyatt and Miss Dolby. Mr. Hobbs's ballad of " The Dying Girl to her Mother" was very charmingly sung by the composer. It is a very clever composition. Blagrove's concerto " Mayseder" was excellent. Mr. Blagfove is de cidedly the first violinist of the day either for brilliancy of execution, or quality of tone. The " Mermaid's sone' by Miss Woodyait, a Siren . Fantasia" went , off with great eclat. The eoneluding.duet, "'Ph Maiden Fair," by Paisiello, sung by Miss Woodyatt and Mr. Hobbs, was really a great treat. It is a most deli- cious . composition. The second part opened with Mendel shon's sublime overture to " Midsummer Night's Dream." " Sweet Willie" would have been delighted to have heart it. It was admirably played. Itossini's " Cruda sorte' went ofl very fairly. The next composition, " BaUi Batti' The old veteran's accompaniment was realll 's effort from Pechatschek N Blagrove' was a gem ,and narrowly escaped an encore. " Felicitia h "The Wanderer" applause. Schul was delightfully sung by Miss Dolb_ fully improved since her last appearance here. The next The Captive Greek Girl," composed by Mr. Hobbs y him, was most undeservedly encored. Mr. song of This lady is wand and sun] Hobbs certainly m time e more of it the second than the first The movement of quartett, two violins, tenor and God preserve the Emperor," by Haydn, was The concert concluded with a ballad by a trio of Weber's. Those who were pi violoncello, played Woodyatt, a will do Mr. Ashton the justice to say that the concert was admirably got up. The selections were tasteful, judicious, and had sufficient novelty to be pleasing. The fourth concert will be got up in a fortnight. The house was well warmed and comfortable. • . MORAVIAN MISSIONS.—We beg to draw the attention of our readers to a most forcible appeal (which will be found elsewhere) made upon their feelings as men and christians in behalf of the Moravian missions in Greenland. The hard ships people that these devoted midergo for the purpose of . spreading christian knowledie is but faintly shadowed forth in that appeal. The present cold weather can but faintly give us an idea of the bitter winds of the north,-and if we complain when the thermometer is hardly below Zero, we ought to extend to our christian brethren much sympathy, kindness, and support to enable them to withstand " the pittiless pelt ing of the storm," braved for a work indeed of love, when it stands with them at 50 degrees below that point. We are certain that no one perusing the highly interesting statement to which we refer can refuse them succour. It will be noticed that in St. Petersburgh there is a society formed for the pur pose of gathering subscriptions and affording relief to these kind-hearted creatures, but the funds at present are low, and require the aid of the benevolent. It will be observed that several ladies and gentlemen in this neighbourhood have un dertaken to receive subscriptions. SEAMEN' a b lac' WAGES.-. •At the Police Court, yeiterday, named Thomas applied fora balance of wages alleged to be due to him, he having perfolited a voyage from British America to this port as an ordinary seaman. It appeared, however, that .the applicant was no seaman at all; that he could neither hand, reef, nor steer, and that if he could he had incapacitated himself from doing so for 17 days, by ha ing indiscreetly contracted a loaths( balance of lls. was, however, allo . named Mills also applied fog• wno-e. ❑e on a similar vc hipped as an able seaman, ent, - and even owed money to but was altogethe the shin I-le, too,„liad pplication was dismisieC OBTAININC Police Court, yesterday, a man named John Duff was placed at the bar, chdrged with having accepted of several engage- LLETENCES ments to go to sea, but after receiving monthly notes from the parties respectively,' got them cashed, and refused' to proceed on any voyage whatever. Mr. Aikin lamented that the case did not fall within the jurisdiction of that court, and advised the - parties to proceed against him by action. The prisoner was necessarily, discharged. ENCY.—Seven boys, named Rooney, W. Travers, Milligan, Johnston, Roberts, Cornell, and L. Travers e were yesterday placed at the bar of the police-court, on a charge of attacking parties with snowballs, and also with cutting some bags of sugar in two carts witd intent to steal. They were found in the fire-room of the Glass Works, Great Howard-street;where they had no right to be. Mr. Inspector Tyrrell said they were all well-known thieves ; that the pro prietor of the glass works had fixed an iron grate to keep them out, but that they broke it down and returned to the premises, which they used as a rendezvous. Near the pri soners were found numerous bones of.geee.-e and • turkeys, which they had doubtless stolen. They were each committed to the House of Correction for 14 clays. ILE DELINQ' STEALING FROM A SHIP.-At the police-court, yesterday, a man named James Howley was charged with having stolen a sheet of sheathing copper. The case was proved, and he was committed to gaol for one month. ASSAULT.—A man named Thomas Walker was yesterday charged, at the police-court, before Mr. Aikin and Mr. R. V. Yates, with having violently and unprovokingly assaulted a gentleman on the previous day, to whoni he was totally un- known. He struck the complainant on the face, and bled his nose. He had before been committed for a breach of the law, and was required to pay 405., or be imprisoned one onth. PROMISES OF FORGIVENESS TO OFFENDERS.-At the police court; yesterday, a young woman was charged with having stolen some wearing apparel, which had been hung up in a yard to dry. There could he no doubt that she had committed the delinquency, which, indeed, she admitted to one of the officers, when apprehended, but another having proved that he heard th e p rosecutor promise to forgive her, if the articles were returned, Mr. Aikin, who occupied the bench, in the absence of Mr. Rushton, said that from the promise made, the prisoner must be discharged ; and he strongly admonished and dismissed her. __ . . TT THE HALIFAX AND BOSTON MAIL STEAM-SHIP ACA DIA.—The latest advices from Boston at New York, up to noon on the 19th, state that the Acadia, which left Liverpool on the 4th of December, had not arrived at Boston at four p.m. on the 18th, which leaves her out 14 days. The last four Liverpool packets which have arrived—viz., Roscoe, Stephen Whitney, Columbus, and Sheridan—have each res cued the lives of the crew of an English vessel, and brought them to this port.—New York paper. • RUMOURED DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Rumours have been prevalent in this neighbourhood, that on Monday last a most serious calamity happened on Whittlesey Mere, the ice breaking, and, it is said, upwards of 100 lives have been lost. From inquiries we have made, we have reason to fear this rumour is not without foundation, though various reports still continue.—Cambridge Advertiser of Wednesday. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS.—The members of the Loyal Duke of Norfolk Lodge held their annual ball at the house of Mrs. Naylor, Black Horse and Rainbow Ta vern, Cheapside, on Monday, the 11th inst., when upwards of one hundred persons attended. ' The suit of rooms appro priated for the occasion were well adapted for the accommo dation of the visitors, and gave general satisfaction. The dancing commenced at half-past eight o'clock, and continued until an early hour in the morning. Much praise is due to the worthy hostess, for the handsome manner in which she provided and accommodated the visitors with refreshments, in her usual plentiful and elegant style. The company re tired highly satisfied with the evening's entertainment. Great praise is also due to the band furnished by Mr. Phil lips, for the very able manner in which they contributed their part to the evening's amusement. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—The following circular has been addressed by Lord J. Russell to the supporters of go vernment in the House of Commons :—" Downing-street, Jan. 2, 1841.—Sir,—The meeting of parliament b eing fixed for Tuesday, the 26th inst., I take the liberty of very paiti cularly requesting your attendance on that day.—l have the honour to be, your obedient servant, "J. RUSSELL." RIBBLI NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENT. - Having from time to time availed ourselve s o f eac h fitting opportunity for reporting to our readers the progress of that most important and formidable part of the Ribble improvement undertaking, the excavation of the rock, we have, at length, the great gra tification of announcing the full realization f the hopes we have held out of its speedy and perfect completion. The work is not only completed according to the original pro spectus by the engineers, but has been carried nearly five feet deeper, and double the width which was then proposed. The excavation, as now accomplished, will give a depth, in that part of the river, of full twenty feet, at ordinary spring tides. The width also will be adequate to any vessel that ever ploughed the main of Britain. The two walls upon which the framework of the coffer dam was erected, teehni, cally called " midfcathers," are all that now remain of the once immense bed of rock; and these a week's fine weather will be amply sufficient to remove. Considering the state of the weather of late, and the, ponderous nature of the opera tions, the greatest credit is due to the directors, the con tractors, and all concerned, for the activity and persevering enterprise which have characterized their proceedings throughout. Of late, the. men have been working night and day, in order to effect what is now happily accomplished,— tae entire removal of the impervious rocky bar, before the period of the forthcoming high tides.—Preston Chronicle. We are given to understand that the Marquis Conyngham has entirely seceicd from the whigs, and that his lordship will join the conservative phalanx at the Duke of Welling ton's banquet, 'immediately preceding the opening of parliar ment.—Kentish Gazette. We are exceedingly sorry to hear that Captain Alsager, the worthy and able conservative member for East Surrey, is labouring under very severe illness—indeed, great alarm is felt by his friends as to his recovery. REPEAL FALSEHOODS. — One of the speakers at the anti corn law meeting at Portsmouth, said "It was not the landed gentry who fought the battle of Waterloo ; they had too many comf or ts to induce them to stay at home." What rubbish and falsehood is this ? The owners or heirs tp thOu sands of acres were present on that memorable occasion— but how many cotton lords ? A PLEASANT PIECE OF WORK.—In the Eastern Coun ties' Accident we ought not to expect any tolerabl e arrange ments, for all persons conversant with railway m a tt ers are aware that the directors , or at least a portion of them, have bten for a long time pleasantly and profitably employed in the amiable operation of cutting the.proprietors' throats, so that all the shareholders of common prudence have *eked Qut !—The Railroad Quarterly Journal. GES Pit MIX DL Dri, BUCK TO Tint CITA, PEIMED AGAINST HIM BY CAPT. WIL • (Coneinued.from our last.) SECOND CIIARG " Second,—Whether the allegation - made by the chaplain to the inspector of prisons, that the schoolmi s t ress h a d b een proselytizing the Protestant prisoners, and that two female prisoners of the latter persuasion bad by her influence left the prison Catholics, is founded on facts." The statement made by me to the inspector of prisons was, that I had heard, some considerable time since, that such an event had taken place, so far as related to two prisoners, not generally ; that I had no means of proving its truth or falsity ; that I had never heard the names of the parties, although different officers of the prison had conversed with me on the subject, some one of whom, but which I could not remember, had been my informant, my present impression being that the matron had been that person. I confess I never expected to hear of the circumstance again, and can only regard this charge, though so seriously worded, as a sort of make weight, to help towards my removal from The evidence produced, though not supporting the fact re ported to me, and mentioned by me to the inspector, at least shows, that circumstances quite sufficient to arouse the sus picions of the chaplain of this prison have taken place—cir cumstances requiring, as I should have thought, the interven tion of the justices, that proselytes may not be made to the Roman Catholic religion. For lst.—lt has Ceen elicited that the schoolmistress, in opposition to her known duties has, with the knowledge of the matron, against the matron's well understood duty, without the permission, and contrary to the known will of the chaplain, lent a Roman Catholic missal to one of the prisoners, she well knowing at the time that Dr. Buck had then the sole right of lending such a book to any one in con- finement and occasion 2ndly. It has come to light,—that on a sec, when she knew she had no right so to do, in contravention of the chaplain's known will, and right to be consulted without , •• hii permission. lent 'to a' second - prisoner a second Roman Catholic missal. 3rdly. The evidence produced, shows that the school mistress had Roman Catholic hooks in her possession within 'the prison, without the knowledge of the chaplain, an con trary to the laws of the prison. Ellen Norris says,. " I am the schoolmistress of the pri son. I am of the Roman Catholic . persuasion. I have 'never spoken to any prisoners as to their particular religious tenets, I frequently do n o t k now th e i r religious tenets. I generally have an idea f rom th e sc h oo l s th y go to before. Ido not always ask the question. I lent a Catholic prisoner a- Catholic prayer-book, without applying to the governor or chaplain. She never had possession of the books out of my presence. I believe when I first went there, I once lent a sick girl one, Miss Davies knew of it. I have only an almanack of my own in the prison now, and have not had any books of my own there for some time." That the - chaplain had . expressed to the governor his , fears that the children would ben. converted 'to catholicism, and also to the matron, which could not have been in the absence of all cause she says, an observation once fell from Dr. Buck, that the children would be converted to catho licism. sthly. That the governor had spoken to Dr. Buck, on the subject of Miss Davies the matron, being, through her inti macy with the schoolmistress, and Roman Catholic publi cations, lent to her by the mistress, tinged with Roman Catholic opinions. In fact, though the governor could not, at the time of his cross-examination, speak decidedly on the subject, only saying in answer to the question, " Did you ask me to speak with her on the subject. I may or may not have done so. I won't say that I did not, but I cannot say that I did. I said that Miss Davies and the school mistress had been reading Roman Catholic books, 'and some them said that Miss Davies was likely to become a Catholic. I said I hoped she would not." In continuing the conversation, I will not say whether I asked the chap lain to speak to her or not. This whole examination is so curious that I call your attention to it. By the magistrates—" Did you request Dr. Buck to speak to Miss Davies about catholicism or not ? " I will not say whether or not." By Chaplain—" Do you recollect speaking to me abodt the sacrament as relates to yourself? " I do. " How long is that ago ? " About three or tour months. " Did not the conversation take place on that day ? " I solemnly swear it did not. I said I should be happy to see the sacrament administered in the gaol. " Have you lately had a conversation with me about Miss Davies? " Vf " Did Oil in that conversation speak to me about the Ro man Catholic doctrine ? Not on that occasion Have you at that time spoken to me on the subject o Davies being lightly to be tinged with Roman Catholic doctrines ? " Was the schoolmistress's name mentioned in such con- versation ? " On a former conversation it was " On any occasion did you ask me to speak to Miss Davies ? " I wont say I did, or I did not. " Have you reason to think this has been a subject of con versation among the officers? " I heard it from some of the female officers." 6thly. Miss Davies's extreme sensibility in regard to Ro man Catholic feelings has been brought to light. I real an extract from my journal, _ _ " Sunday, March 4th, 183.--Visited Eliza Lefroy (twice) --An awful instance of sin followed by horror and despair. I prayed with—and for her; her shrieks at the thought of dyi❑g, and appearing before the judgment seat of Christ, were most appalling. The inmates of the Infirmary were very, much affected with the spectacle, if not by my remarks, for I took the opportunity of afterwards addressing them." " Monday, March sth, 1838.—The convict Lefroy died last night at half-past eleven. The horrors of Hr mind to all appearance not alleviated. Subject of add! ing, I Cor. xv. 50-7. T eath of the believer and the on _ Many a weeping eye—and 1 hope heart. It was season of solemn awe, which I trust a Covenant God ma bless to good." Miss Davie s present impressions of this death, and o this discourse preached two years and seven month is thus elicited is 'evidence—of course designed to prove x unfitness as a cln As to the deal ` I recollect visit about two years ago, with the chaplain. She was dying in the hospital.• I don't know that she ryas in despair., I heard her screams. , She was in great agony before she died. I did not know it was from fear of going to bell." As to the discourse.—" I remember his addressing them about a female prisoner. He said they had trusted to their priests, and died in despair. I hare heard Arlin use the term priest in the pulpit. I have not heard the female prisoners talk about it. lam not aware it caused .any disquietude in the prison. I have heard mention made on several occa sions, allusions to the 'lonian Catholics similar to those I .have explained. I cannot remember words: it is'A general impression. Dr. Buck's attention has not always been re ceived favourably by the Catholic females. I have never heard why so. in a manner I could explain. I have found sonic slight difference in the doctrines in the prison to what I have been accustomed to elsewhere. I have noticed it Miss Davies is the only witness who speaks of any pri soners being - hurt in mind by any remarks I have made in preaching, except Mrs. - Norris, the schoolmistress, who told the child or children who complained that they were cer tainly mistaken. • The chaplain thinks it right to observe, that he has never attempted to bide his opinions; that the employment of a Roman Catholic schoolmistress, in a prison in a Protestant Country,—he as chaplain having no real control over the school, but only, and that for a comparatively Short period of late, a superintending visiting oflice,.—is inconsistent with the Protestantism orthe country, and the wellbeing of the Protestant children in this prison. A teacher is expected to explain what is read, and when the Scriptures are in use, must explain them. . There is—to show, I presume, the extreme liberality of the schoolmistress in matters concerning religion, and how un likely she is to attempt to proselytise—a remarkable piece of evidence produced :-- " Dr. Buck took away the Bibles, and after much diffi culty, considerable delay, and entreaty, she at last obtained the favour of having one Bible in the school—being, in the meantime, much hurt at the abstraction." Here you will observe that the usual, and best known cr der of things, is reversed. The Protestant minister denie the use of a Bible—the Roman Catholic hungers for it, a needful food for his children. - A singular circumstance this in a prison having more than six hundred persons within its walls, every one of whom who can read (if the chaplain's directions have been attended to) being supplied with a copy of the New Testament during the first six months of imprisonment, and an Old and New Tes tament complete during the residue of his or her confine ment. Now we will inquire whether there was any powerful mo tive inducing the chaplain to think that, as a school-hook, the New Testament was more appropriate for the children than the Old Testament. Miss Davies swears—" When first the schoolmistress came, she taught in - the morning from the Old Testament, and in the afternoon from the New Testament. " The Bibles were withdrawn, for Dr. Buck said he in variably came in when she was teaching from the Old Tes tament. They were withdrawn by the chaplain for that reason. His visits were generally in the morning. They had their lesson in the afternoon in the New Testament. Still, notwithstanding this, I know in the evening they were employed in the reading the New Testament. One Bible has been given at the schoolmistress's request, that she might read to the girls. They have all Testaments." Mrs. Norris swears-" I never confined my instructions to the Old Testament. The New Testament was always read in one part of the clay. It was read in the morning about nine o'clock. This was the case ever since I went." Thus Miss Davis says, upon her oath—" Old Testament in.the morning ; New in the afternoon." Mrs. NorrYs says—" New Testament in the morning ; the Old, of course, in the evening:" - - - Whilst, gentlemen, 71 was thinking over this incongruity, this apparent difference, this (of course) unintentional con tradiction, I fell into a reverie,—and fancied that, in the course of my reading, I had met words to the following effect, which seemed to have some little though assuredly not a very perfect resemblance to the matter Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council sought witnesses against him to put him to death, but found pone ; yea, though many witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two witnesses. Gentlemen, it is frequently through failures, in what are deemed by many the smaller points in a case, that, the weightier matters may be more perf ec tly j u d g ed Of. I trust this want of.sttict agreement will not pass away unheeded. The mystery of the Old Testament being removed as a school book, and New Testaments substituted, is easily un ravelled. Whenever your chaplain entered the female school, which, on. an average, since his appointment, has been at least twice or thrice weekly, and at all hours, from nine in the morning till fo'ur, or later in the evening ; if the scrip tures happened to be in use, he always found the pupils oc cupied in reading those parts only of the historical writings which abounded in hard names, and which were the least calculated to imp ar t i m portant truth to the infant mind. Never did he find the Ps4lms, the Prophesies, or any part of the New Testament being read, but most generally the books of the Chroni c le s o f things. He then thought, and still thinks, he used a wise dicretion, in cutting off the opportu nity of keeping the'children in ignorance of the word of God. Testaments were supplied, arid since that period, he has rea son to believe, have been properly used. On this charge, therefore, I have to state that Captain' Williams has unintentionally overcharged the statement I made to him—he ascribes to me what I never said. Th e amount of my information to him was, that it had been re ported to me by some officer of the prison that two persons had changed their religious tenets through the influence of the schopimistres. A statement this which I certainly be lieved to be very possible—and very probable, and nothing h as transpired on the inquiry to weaken, b u t on the contrary, much to increase my former impressions; I know the fact was rep,orted to me by an officer of the prison as undoubted ; I know that I spoke a4 , the tim e to others concerning it. THIRD CHARGE. Whether the statement made by the Chaplain to the InspeCtOr of Prisons, that a prisoner had been punished for pra ying in his cell at two o' c l oc k i n the morning, is founded on fact." As this particular instance was one which I informed Cap tain Williams, was included in the many cases referred to in my letter to the magistrates, as I told him at the time, I knew not the name of the party suffering, nor the officers concerned, nor did I see an y way tO establish the fact by di- Woe aause 41stinctiy and its being made a I met testimony. Althp I under my - •ep . ly to V.] aowled the daniagea, my g this case, peparate chgtrge as a means of inereasjo s st charge must be takea as coverin which ought not in common fairness to have been separated from it I learn, however, from the course adopted, the extreme in search of faults any question proposed by one who comes Would it not have been more candid, .d—Dr. Buck, tell me of no circum . believe to be true ; which your own €yes have witnessed, unless you have it in your power to establish it by other testimony, otherwise I shall bring against you a charge of havin,- [lad Captain Williams sai stance which tated that which is not founded on fdet—l I shall use all my power to degrade you amongst men—l shall not cease from following you till I have accomplished your ruin. Had the Inspector thus warned me of the nature of his office, of the purpose of his secret exa minations, I should have known how to conduct myself ; I spoke to him, as to and equal, as to a man of honor, as to one who had no ulterior object in view—l freely spoke of evils I believed to exist. My reward is insult, degradation, and ruin. FOURTH CHARGI Whether the chaplain has intentionally endeavoured to create an erroneous impression on the minds of the magis trates to the disadvantage of the matron and the female offi cers, by making an entry in his journal, dated February 16th, 1840, and to the effect that he found the female prisoners amusing themselves on the Sabbath by reading aloud from a story book, he well knowing the same to be a moral tract, published by the Society for Promoting Christian knowledge." The entry in my journal thus reads :—" Sunday, 26th Fe bruary, ]B4O. Visited every tart of the prison, and saw, I believe, every person in confinement—the hospitals, girls' and all the wards. Found the women in the untried grant ward, reading a story book, by way these books have obtained an entrance Ige; and are no proper substitute for the tures on the Lord's Day." impressions likely to be produced. are twofold, as I , :se very simple harmless words, which, when they read by the magistrates in committee, called forth no remarks that I have ever heard of either towards myself, Miss Davies, or any of the female officers. The entry might have remained in oblivion without leading to any results, had not the inspector, in search of criminatory evidence against the chaplain, suggested that duplicity had been used towards the magistrates ; that the Society for Promoting Christian Know ledge had been dishonoured; that the matron, and her sub on)" ward, and in the vas without my knowlec read the ate officers, had been dreadfully outraged in their feel ings. My conduct cannot, after all, be so greatly depraved, when such an apology for a charge, such a phantom, is dressed up in the solemn language of accusation. Ex• his disce onznes. . I have said that the impressions likely to arise from this entry were twofold. First, that a book which the chaplain thought not tit for Sunday reading, and not so suitable for prisoners as the Bible, was in use in two wards. Secondly, that the book, such as it was, was there contrary to his will. Captain Williams assumes that Dr. Buck well knows the contents of the tale, called the two shoemakers, which is positively contrary to the matter of fact. One friend of Dr. Buck, a gentleman of the highest emi nence in the town, who has read this tract as it is called— though it is in reality a story book of 76 pages, pretty closely printed—states, that the work ca n i n no p ro p er sense be called a tract, in the modern use of that word ; it is a mere tale of amusement.* Another friend, upon whose judgment he can fully rely, has read the, work at his request, he not now hav ing time to do so ; that friend assures him that the publica tion neither deserves the name of a m ora l nor re li g i ous tract. mere tale, a common story book ; and"what sonic Might call .its religious reflections, are generally mostunscrip tural, and, therefore, unsuitable for imparting useful infor- Captain Williams assumes that Dr. Buck kne w th a t it was published by a certain society, which also was not a proper assumption, as the chaplain only learnt that circumstance by the evidence produced against him. He assumes also, that what this society publishes must necessarily be good, and ought to be received as sterling by every clergyman, whereas the chaplain is on e o f a l arge b o d y o f t h e clergy who think that that society issues a great deal of error, opposing the spirit of the Scriptures, and the doctrines upheld in the 39 Articles and in the Liturgy of the Church of England. To understand this matter fully, I read the following ex tract from my journal, dated 14th February, 1838, " Mr. D. Hodgson, V.M., here this day. Declined the assistance of a committee of ladies, suggested by Miss H., as also any dis tribution of books or tracts, on the ground of every inmate of the place hearing some portion of the Word o f G o d exp l a i ne d by the chaplain daily." The rule there laid down has been the rule there recognised by me, and was well known to every officer of the prison. The use of books beyond the limits of the boys' school is only of very recent introduction, and only extorted from me by frequent importunities against my better judgment. I will now call your attention to the introduction of a col lection of tales and tracts, the unauthorised use of which in the prison has led to the present charge. A lady well known to hold religious sentiments, removed to the greatest possible extreme from those of the established church—whose creed, being rather negative than positive, may be thus understood,—The writings of the old and new testament are not the inspired wdrk of God the Holy Ghost. Jesus Christ is not the eternal God. Men are not pardoned only through the atoning efficacy of the blood of Christ, nor jusified in the sight of God by his imputed righteousness. The Holy Spirit's agency is riot essential to Divine instruction. There is no state of eternal torments. A lady, I say, with this negative creed, so adverse to the opinions of every honest churchman, accompanied by a anagistrate of this bo rough, of the same religious opinions as herself,t wished to distribute amongst.the female prisoners a certain number of publications, and actually did give one or two into the work room for the officers to read to the prisoners, (I have quoted Miss Davies's words on oath), without the permission or knowledge of the chaplain, he being the only person autho rised by the law of the land to distribute books for general reading amongst the prisoners. The publications; therefore, whether good, bad, or indiffe rent, came under the chaplain's observation, under very sus ' ces—he firmly believing that no person reed without wishing that that creed may truly holds to any be extended, and be received by others It has been elicited in evidence that the matron, well knowing the law, collected the books, and brought them into the vestry. She knew she could not, in accordance with her duties, be allowed to be read by the prisoners. The lady before alluded to paid a second visit to the prison, and -brought some more books, which she wished the pri soners to have—but the matron very properly interfered and advised - her to see the chaplain ; she added he had not allowed the others to be read. The chaplain was accordingly sent for, and had some disputation on the subject—but fully and firmly declared (and in the presence of the matron,) his un willingness to have any tracts distributed. He would, how ever, examine them, and if unobjectionable, allow them to be, read on the week days. The lady left the publications in the hand of the chaplain, expressing her hope that he would exa mine them and allow them to be used. She thought them more calculated to do good among the prisoners than the bible. I dissented from that opinion, and laid the tracts On my shelf, intending, whenever I might have leisure, to read them, and then to act as any judgment might incline me. Now, gentlemen, you have it in evidence that Miss Davies. well knowing my objections, did cbntrary to my known will, enter my vestry, take a copy without permission granted, (there must, indeed, have been more than one copy taken, as 1 found two in use at one and the same time in different parts of the prison on the same Sunday, when the bible should have been the only book in use,)—that Miss Davies gave it into the possession of a prisoner, and that in going through two of the three day rooms, i. e., two thirds of the female prison, on a Sunday, he found two books being publicly read to the assembled prisoners, to the exclusion of God's word. He ascertained at the time that the title of one of these books was " The two Shoemakers," a production he had never read, but which naturally appeared to him to be a mere book of amusement, something to gain the attention—but as much fit for comparison with God's revelation as darkness to light, as sin to holiness, as error to eternal truth. I refer you to a part of my quarterly report, dated January 14, 1839. " I would s _...,,;gest to the magistrates the propriety of allowing some small portion of each day—even if that time be limited to five minutes—in which the prisoners might, if they wished, have the permission to read .the scriptures : far so strict are the rules, that no man under confinement has, During this season of the year, the power or permission to look That a system so restricted should be ad ...geous to the moral improvement of the mind no man can suppose. Ido therefore trust the magistrates may deem it advisable to correct what I must desiniate this great evil." Distressed at finding many immortal' souls immured in a prison for crime, occupied in reading a light and miserable tale, instead of the scriptures, durin g th at sma ll portion o f the Sunday which constituted the chief time they could by possibility devote to reading, —to hearing the word of God; to considering the love of God to man ; with indignation at this profanation of God's day, your chaplain ordered the books to be removed, and entering his vestry in much distress of heart, at the reflection of the awful ignorance of those by whom he was surrounded, and the obstacles thrown in his Way when sincerely attempting to lead prisoners to read the word of God, he mad e th e. f o ll ow i ng entry . " Visited every part of the prison, and saw, I believe. every person in confinement,—the hospitals, girls' school, and all the wards. Found the women in the untried ward And in the vagrant ward reading a story book by way of amusement. These books have obtained an entrance without my know ledge, and are no proper substitute for the scriptures on the Lords day." into any book Is there a word in the entry concerning Miss Davies's conduct in acting contrary to my orders? In breaking through the proper rule of her duty ? Nothing of the kind; but simply such an entry as the circumstances of the case called for ; for the gaol act commands me to make entries in my journal of all such things as arise out of my performance of duties as chaplain in the prison ; and no one will deny but that this was abuse against my office, coming under my personal ob servation in the performance of my duty of going through the day rooms to ascertain that prisoners were properly employed on the Sabbath day. I have notleard that Miss Davies or a n y o f h er officers have been rebuked on the s u bj ec t, or even warne d no t aga i n wilfully to oppose th e c h ap l a i n ' s undoubted right to re gu l ate the general reading. No the only person to be censured is the chaplain, because he opposes all reading except the word of God amongst the prisoners on the Sabbath day. His religious views are not liked—his reverence for the scrip tures not approved—his zeal for the welfare of souls deemed absurd. The opinion of the matron of the prison as to what constitutes proper reading for female prisoners on the Sun days, is to be regarded as of more importance than his who is sent of God, by the laws of the land, and under the sanction of an express act of parliament to make known to perishing sinners the way of salvation. The supposed outrage of the matron's feelings is to be atoned for. The real outrage committed on the chaplain'; in ascribing to him an intention to mislead the magistrates is only a necessary part of the important and most honourable office of an inspector of prisons ! The charge is in my estimation so frivolous—so vexatious, that I' am astonished it should have found its way before got}. The person who can say that under all the circumstances of suspicion by which these tracts found an entrance into thp prison, the surreptitious abstraction of them from my vestry, . the use of them in preference to the word of God amongst thp vagrant classes and the untried females of a prison oz# thg SaL4lh day—the person who will say that my simple inoffen sive entry deserves to be represented as a wilful, a corrupt misleading of the magistrates, really must form an opinion very different to that which Would be . arrived at by nio§t of his fellow men. Furrg AND SIXTH CIIAROPS. " Fifth.—Wbether the chaplain When officiating on the sabbath, has not indecorously called the attention of the pri soners to a portion of the 10Gth Psalm, new version sung by them that day in the prison chapel, warning them against the use of it, and characterising it to them as blasphemous.' " Sixth.—Whether the chaplain has not on one occasion addressed the prisoners in the prison chapel, on the subject of the number of punishments which had taken place for misconduct there, implying doubts as to their having so mis conducted themselves, thereby reflecting upon the officers, and weakening their authority and influence over the pri soners." I mud, gentlemen, necessarily blend the fjftli and sixth charges ?ogether, although a clear difference in their force and bearing against me is discernible, the one attaching indecorum only, the other, the exciting the spirit of rebellion and much other evil. The same general reasoning, is, how ever, necessary in both cases, the consideration of each septt •7 rately, I shall not * It is one of llannah More's religious novels, as they are called. t This gentleman is one of the senior j nstices now en quiring into my conduct, as a minist er o f J ebus Ch r i st, the only wi se God and Saviour. 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