The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

:~ ~~ N ''%, THE iLiberpoot :.--)tailbarb+ TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1855. FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING. To use a figure borrowed from the martial spirit of the time, the legislative campaign having been brought to a close, and the various divisions of the Parliamentary army having gone into cantonments, the diurnal or hebdomadary chronicler of their achievements is necessarily put to his shifts for ma terial wherewith to garnish his tale. g however, abandoning the often unwelcome, and more frequently unprofitable task of recording their performances, or censuring their non-per formances, he casts his eyes abroad upon the everyday world, he will find no lack of themes to exercise his talent—no want of objects solicitous of observation. True, the Court, and with the Court the gaiety of fashionable life, have conjointly, for the time being, deserted the English, and taken up their temporary residence in the French metropolis. But are courts and pompous pageantry the only objects worthy of consideration among a great and enlightened people, as the English profess to consider themselves? Assuredly they are not. Unquestionably, every loyal subject of QUEEN VICTORIA— that is, every breathing Briton—must feel proud and grateful to learn, that in the person of his Sovereign the national vir tues and the national graces have met with appreciation, and commanded esteem and admiration from our noble-hearted allies. The visit of the QUEEN of BRITAIN to the capital of France, and the welcome accorded to her—not merely by her Imperial hosts, but by the myriads of that people who were taught from lisping infancy to regard the subjects whom she sways as enemies, and who were taught to tune the first accents of their tongues to reproaches of her people, and to designate the island-home in which her throne is placed, as perfidious and deceitful, must stand recorded in the pagerof history as a memorable event. If regarded only as indicative of that cordial fellowship which exists between the rulers of two great and powerful kingdoms, the visit is one fraught with no ordinary or ephemeral interest. Viewed as the symbol of that harmonious unity of feeling which better knowledge of each other has ripened into ties of friendship and affection between the people of the two most powerful and enlightened nations of the earth, the interchange of visits and reception acquires a significance rarely accorded to the acts of individuals, and confers a new aspect on the destinies of Europe. A brief space of time only has elapsed since the world, almost for the first time, saw the armies of England and France contending in the same field for the same object Brethren iu arms, though rivals in renown; but the past week has witnessed the generous strife of the people and the sovereigns —the rulers and the ruled—in giv ing assurance to the world of their cordial union in defence of enfeebled right against aggressive might. The political im portance of the friendly intercourse between the monarchs far exceeds, as it will long outlive, the gorgeous splendours of the numerous spectacles—the balls, illuminations, banquets, and other social glories, with all their fascinations and delights, will speedily recede into the dim oblivion of the past, and be thought of only as a gorgeous dream—not so the grandeur of those moral results which must flow from the union of two mighty nations leagued together as the active foes to oppres sion. This night our beloved SOVEREIGN takes leave of her august ally, and ere to-morrow's dawn she will be speeding her homeward way, followed by the vivas and the blessings of the French people, as she will be welcomed by the joyous ac claim of her own true-hearted subjects. While gala, rout, and roundelay have lent their combined charms to enliven the r oy a l p rogress , p er f ormances o f ano th er -* order have contributed to keep attentio n awa k e a t h ome . .--,- _ - , Further communication from the B a ltic h as ena bl e d, or ra th er `,., constriined, us to class Admiral DIINDAS' talismanic an nouncement, " Sweaborg is no more," with the memorable • `! Sebastopol est prit" of the French EMPEROR, uttered about ten months ago. Sebastopol is not taken, and Sweaborg still exists. The completeness of the work done at the latter for tresi is much less than the language of the first despatch had led to the belief of. The guns and fortifications of the place remain almost uninjured, although the destruction of naval and mil stores stores has lyvm , Treater than was at first sup posed. Tfolt,eper:s I received a severe blow, under \ - the effects re ' reel and stagger, but without Pr: vieersive infl uc—ce 0 ury, or such as can exercise a _.....ediate progress of the war. The success, such as it is, however, has had the effect of igniting the explosive mixture which forms so conspicuous an ele ment in the composition of Sir CHARLES NAPIER, and the result has been the discharge of a long and angry letter, in which; with great unction of ascerbity, he renews his quarrel with, and his denunciation of, Sir JAMES GRAHAM. He main tains that the bombardment of Sweaborg has effected nothing which he did not foresee and foretel last year, and which will not require to be done over again next year: Much and severe animadversion has been spoken, written, and printed in con demnation of the brave old admiral's somewhat spicy letter ; and " natheless," as DOMINIE SA_MPSON would say, it is greatly open to sharp criticism. To find fault with even the partial success of another, in a sphere of action in which he himself did nothing, seems, at the first blush of the business, to look invidious. To repeat a series of accusations against the late First Lord of the Admiralty, which he had previously fulmi nated, and on various occasions, is certainly open to the charge of egotistic indiscretion. For an officer who has held a high command to turn round and assail his superiors because he has not been able to carry their instructions into effect, does savour of insubordination, and assumes the aspect of querulous incon sistency; but when the matter is examined a little deeper than the surface, many of the seeming improprieties disappear ; while further inquiry leads to the conviction that the veteran has not only considerable ground of complaint, but that the very success of Admiral Dusrra s is corroborative of the injustice to which Sir CHARLES NAPIER complains he has been subjected. From Admiral DUNDA.S'S state ment it is perfectly clear that such destruction as has been hurled upon Sweaborg has been by means of mortars and that the large ships of the line took no share in the affray beyond that of distant spectatorship. Sir CHARLES NAPIER had no gun-boats or mortar-boats, nor, as he himself says, a*single mortar in his fleet. He urged on Sir JAMES GRAHAM and the Admiralty the expediency, indeed the necessity, of being furnished with these, to enable him effectually to attack Sweaborg, and even Cronstadt, and pointed out how, with the assistance of these, he would have been able completely to destroy the fortifications of Sweaborg, and even to reach the shipping sheltered under them. Instead of furoishing_him with those instruments which he declared indispensable to success, their lordships ordered him to attack with the ships he had, and, because he would not do so, they deprived him of his command. This, coupled with Admiral DIINDIS'S success, gives Sir CHARLES the opportunity of making a strong hit, with which he concludes his peppery epistle., "Sir YAntzB CritAlTAx," he says, "was one of the ministers who sent a British army to Sebastopol in the middle of last September, without the means of moving, without food, proper tents or clothing, and without hospitals, to pass a dreary winter and perish ; and he was the minister who wanted me to take a British fleet, in the end of October, to perish among the rocks of Sweaborg, and, to their shame, got two naval officers to pat their names to the insulting letter he wrote me : and these men still remain in the Admiralty—and that is the way the navy of this country is managed." Strong language this from an officer in accusa tion of a public servant ; but not stronger than the circum stances seem to warrant ; the glorious triumph achieved against Sweaborg forming the chief evidence of its propriety, and conclusive justification of his conduct in refusing to obey the orders of Sir JAMES GRAHAM. Admiral DUNDAS was the officer chosen to repair the alleged errors committed by Sir CHARLES NAPIER, yet he delayed making any attempt upon it until late in the summer, and would not undertake it till he was furnished with that particular arm of strength which Ne.rins said was indipensable, and which was denied to him. In point of fact, Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S conduct was a natural corollary to the sentiments connected with the war indulged in by the Cabinet of which he was a member. The object of that Cabinet was evidently to carry on war on negative prin ciples. The whole was expected to be managed by demon stration, and the rude contest of war was by them intended 'to be carried on on the same bloodless principles which regu late a . ..game of chess. The pawns, knights, and bishops ; the kings, queens, and castles being placed in particular array, it was supposed that the antagonist force, perceiving the hope less condition in which, according to the regulation, they 'were placed, would gracefully bow acquiescence to the conven tiongstrategy, confess beaten, and there an end. In pursuance of this demonstrative mode of waging war, an army was landed at Gallipoli for the protection of Constantinople from a coup:de main, but there running the smallest possible risk of conflict with the enemy ; a fleet was equipped for the Baltic, SO arranged that it would prevent the Russians from coming out of harbour, but utterly incapable of approaching them if they chose to remain there. Under such circumstances, was there any thing unnatural in fi n di ng th a t , w h en forced to assume the offensive, the army was found unfurnished with the means of prosecuting a vigorous campaign ; and that the fleet was discover ed incapable of doing wh a t it was never meant to perform ? In connexion with this aubject, flagrant, if not unpardonable, matter forces itself upon obser vation. If the commanders knew that they were expected to perform real warlike services, insteAd of the chess-board style of combat, why did they not seo that their respective arma ments were suited to the service expected from them P If they could not estimate the requirements, they were them selves but indifferently qualified as leaders in the enterprise ; if they knew what was expected and could estimate what was needed, but did not insist on having it, their qualifications as commanders do not rise in estimation. In either case, or both, what has been said a hundred times, and a hundred times over, comes back with double force,—the Ministry, collectively and individually, were greatly to blame for the gross waste of public means, the discredit brought upon the country, and the misery and suffering endured through their mismanage ment. While indulging in so unpleasing a retrospect, the mind is involuntarily led to inquire, what of the future? For deon siderable period past, the public have been made bitterly familiar with that " hope deferred which maketh the heart sick." The summer has run its round, and is waning into the "sere and yellow leaf" of autumn, and still our brave country men and our gallant allies continue in the trenches on the south side of Sebastopol. The actual condition of the fortress, of its defenders, and resources, are little if at all better known to us now than they were twelve months ago, unless indeed we reckon the uncheering knowledge that its defences have been greatly augmented within the period referred to,, and that everything seems at present to indicate the probability of our armies spending another winter in those trenches which last year proved so fatal. The battle recently fought in the line of the Tchernaya is differently looked on, and conflicting conclusions are drawn from it by dif ferent parties. One set deduce from it as an inevitable conclusion that nothing but starvation in the garrison could have induced the Russian commander to hazard an engagement under the circumstances. These parties argue, but do not state their ground of argument, that dissa tisfaction, engendered by suffering, and misery occasioned by starvation, prevail to such an extent in the garrison as to make death itself preferable to longer continuing within the walls ; and the advocates of this theory assert that the battle was occasioned by an exodus of the discontented from the city of Sebastopol —a theory requiring no small amount of credu lity to secure acquiescence in. Another party, with much more show of probability, say the battle was fought by, or chiefly by, reinforcements newly arrived in the Crimea, now liberated from the Galician frontier by the defection of Austria from the Western Alliance. This latter conjecture appears the more entitled to credit, when it is considered that little less than absolute madness, or positive despair, could have induced Prince GORTSCHAICOFF, without reinforcements, to attack the greatly-augmented army of the allies, posted, too, in a strong position, like that which they at present occupy, and which they are engaged in still further for tifying. Estimated by the number of Russians slain, the victory is far from unimportant ; yet, like other victories achieved in the Crimea, it has, so far as can at present be seen, produced no permanent result, and, like the destruction of the arsenals at Sweaborg, the victory produces only barren laurels. With such facts and prospects full in view, the inquiry forces itself strongly on the public mind, are adequate measures afoot to secure the army against a recurrence of the dreadful calamities under which it suffered last winter ? If they are not already organ ized, no time is to be lost. Surely our rulers will not again plead ignorance of the rigours of a Crimean winter in extenu ation of official negligence. Let it not be forgotten that the French, last winter, had a road from their harbour to their camp, sufficiently hard at bottom to be practicable at all weathers, while that which should have been the road from Balacklava to the British camp, was represented byan irregular trench of sludge and semi-liquid mud. The Sardinians, on the Tchernaya, have already begun to experiment on the con struction of winter huts ; it is to be hoped the British army will not again exhibit the only departure from the rules of prudence iu such matters. Among the celebrities which have arisen out of the calamities of the last winter's campaign, and the shameful ignorance and negligence which characterised all the public departments in connexion with it, no one has shone with a purer lustre, or been marked by a more disinterested zeal, than that which hallows the name and exertions of Miss NlGur- INGALE. This lady has now, it is understood, succeeded so far in arranging the chaos in which our hospital provision and management in the East were involved, that her onerous and dangerous labours can be spared, and, accompanied by her noble-hearted sisters in humanity, she is about to return to- England. As was to have been looked for in a case of heroism so great, self-devotion so unhesitating, many of the most benevolent and humane who adorn our land have set about preparing the way for a public acknowledgment and enduring memorial of those services she has rendered to her country ana humanity. This, in compliance with the desire of Miss , NIGHTINGALE herself, has taken the form of a subscription, to found in London an hospital to be worked on her own system of unpaid nursing. This is to be called the " NIGgIT INGALE Hospital," and a subscription list is about to be opened at Messrs. COUTTS' bank, for collection of a fund to be plaoed at her disposal when she returns to England. The proposal has been met with general approbation, and without doubt' it will call forth a bounteous flow of liberality. If, through the. Divine blessing, Miss NIGHTINGALE is thus enabled to carry into operation her benevolent desire, we shall be indebted.to the ruthless hand and dire calamities of war for the introduc tion of personal devotion in the administration of our public charities —thus further illustrating the wisdom and benevo lence of that Providence which is continually From seeming evil still educing good. Such members of the political clubs as have not yet departed on their autumnal migration,or,having made but a short light have returned, and like ghosts "revisiting the glimpses of th e moon," are still to be seen flitting about the coffee-rooms-and corridors of their favourite haunts, are at present considerably. beset for topics of convenient gossip. By these members .of the necessitous classes anything is eagerly swallowed as matter for rumination in'the bovine sense, and odd affairs they.some— times do contrive to "bag." Among the most recent of these fancy flights is that which transfers the present Speaker of the House of Commons to the peerage by the title of Munn HECKFIELD. Long before the end of the last session, it was hinted that the Right Hon. J. SHAW LEFEVRE, Ural .of his onerous task of sitting and trying not to yield to the influence of those soporific strains by which his ear has been nlghtly in- - veded, was desirous to escape from the involuntary: penance, . and hence the proposed promotion. Of course, in providing retirement and a peerage for the right hon. gentleman, it is also necessary tofurnish the collective wisdom with r-substitute, and for the last few days a report has gained considerable cur- - rency that Sir GEORGE GREY or Mr. BAINES wiTh be put. in nomination for the vacated office. 'Whether ti.p election of either of those right hon. gentlemen to the post would be fol lowing out the principle of "putting the right man in the right place" may well admit of doubt; but in the presentwncertain state of parliamentary parties, to calculate securely on the success of either, would be a labour much akin to that of " counting chickens before they are hatched." Among:other matters. which have occupied the attention of the useful class of idlers.. referred to, the Herts Guardian has afforded them a delectable, bit of political sweetmeat. According to Carat - authority, Mr. HAYTEB, who sits for the borough of W,ells, and plies Use. " parliamentary whip" for the immaculate Whig party now, in power, has in the most disinterestedAmauner imaginable unfolded to the wondering eyes of his .constituents and, his country, the astonishing aptitude for public service whieh h as hitherto lain buried and unsuspected in the borough of Wells. The registered electors of this boron& number 325, of at the last election, 175 recorded votes. in favour- of Mr. HATTER. Among this limited number of claimants on his political bounty, the right hon. gentleman has discovered that they or their children, or their children's children v have capa city for government service to the number of fifty-one, and these, profiting by the spirit of the time, he has had placed in. "the right places." Of the public adininistrators hatched is Wells-20 have been suitable- for appointments in the cuss toms, 18 have found thelr proper nc-staing-places in the excise, 6 have been born, to,do.duty inn Somerset-House-and the Stamp-office, 3 have had, capacity for-the Post-office,l, has been fitted for the Ror..X.Dock-yard„ I for a position (which is. not mentioned) in the• convict establishment, 1 haa alighted in the London police s and 3, in the- packet service !, HOW can this country ever ran, short of public servants, so- long as wo have warrens for their production as fruitful as. Wells, with a ferret as active inqueartlaing them as Mr. liakyTuu! Scarcely has the hum of wonder been hushed on this mi. tins topic, when. it is again stirred up by the. "sough," as our Caledonian brethren would call it, occasioned by Lord Join Russmala purchase of Hill-house, Radborough, near Stroud, until lately the residence of Sir J. I) PAUL. The on slit has it that Lord Jou means to make it his future country resi dence;; and, the Gloucester Alcrnal says " political motives are attributed to the noble lord in fixing his residence at Stroud. It will be remembered that he sat in Parliament for the borough from 1835 till 1841." Does his lordship already feel his city throne " tottering to his fall ?" is the question put in all the clubs r of course it is answered differently at Brookes' and the Clarendon, although there are not wanting plenty who say the same opinion predominates in both. Your neighbour, Lord STANLEY,IOIO, I see, has been making himself agreeable to the popular leaders on the subject of Education and Mechanics' Institutes, has published a letter advocating the earlier assembling of Parliament, as a means of economizing the public time. The letter has occasioned considerable remark, and its tone is generally approved - of; but those most familiar with the subject maintain that the true mode of economising the time of Parliament, like that of any other assembly, is to work more and speak less. Thea'rical and other annt3enlents are dull and uninviting as they always are in the (10,g-days, yet some exception must be taken to this in favour of the Haymarket, where a bur lesque has been get up of Vie late Administrative Reform movement at Drury-lane. The new piece is from the pen of Mr. BROUGH, and is called " Olympus in a Muddle." There is not much of originality in it. Jupiter, satisfied that all is not right in the Olympian establishment, resolves to set the matter as it should be, and in a "thundering" rage orders his subordinate deities to betake themselves to callings more congenial to their respective natures, and as a result he con trives to leave " Olympus in a Muddle. Mars he finds un fitted to do the service of a maid of all work ; Mercury, although smart and trickey, and not over-scrupulous about truth, turns out to be a bungling Chancellor of the Exchequer. Neptune feels out of his element when called upon to take , the "ribbons" as coachman to the sun. Venus, though potent in the wars of Cupid, finds her armoury unfitted,to the work of Mars. At length, after having turned his house completely " topsy turvy," to use a classic phrase, the " wrath ful Jove" is fain to acknowledge that in his anxiety for ad ministrative reform, he has not been successful in putting the right Gods and Goddesses in the right place, and the drama ends by a return to the orinigal state of affairs. The acting was good, and the performers laboured hard to make a hit, but the success of the piece was rather less than simply in different. The subject affords but little scope for anything beyond the merest common-place " fun" of the burlesque ; and although several decided "hits" are contained in it, and were delivered with telling effect, as a whole the piece met with but a poor reception, and will not do much towards filling Mr. BIICKSTONE'S exchequer. A TRIP TO CHESTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—This is especially the season of pleasure-trips and ex cursion trains, and perhaps there is no kind of passenger traffic which is more satisfactory to all parties concerned, not withstanding the absurd remarks made about it at the half yearly meeting of the London and North-Western Railway Company. By the bye, I may remark that there is no com pany which has so much reason as this one to be satisfied with excursion trains, which, under the able management of Mr. Marcus, have become an institution of no little importance. It is folly to pretend that they interfere with the' regular traffic, for it is well known—indeed, it must be 'obvious to the shallowest comprehension—that those who travel by ex cursion trains are not ordinary travellers, but holiday-makers, tempted by the lowness of the fares, which are something akin to those in America, where it is said to be cheaper to travel than to stay at home. I have, however, wandered from my subject, which is to recommend to your numerous readers in the comparatively new towns of Liverpool and Birkenhead, to make a trip to the ancient city of Chester, so easy of access, and pre senting so many objects of interest, not only to the anti quary, but to the lover of the picturesque and beautiful. There is something unique in these days of peaceful commerce, when towns stretch out their streets through suburbs, innocent of all attempts at defence, or thoughts of invasion, to see a city completely surrounded with walls, reminding one of days long since past, when towers and forts, the drawbridge and the portcullis, were the accessories of almost every town, and told the story of civil war, or the dread of invasion. Chester is, without doubt, the finest and the most perfect relic of antiquity, and must consequently be an object of in terest to every one acquainted with the history of his- own country. The streets, also, are very curious, many or the houses being the veritable remains of Oaf middle ages, with their quaintly decorated fronts and curiously ornamented gables,—one of them in particular being profusely covered-with grotesquely designed bas-reliefs from scripture history.- Those who have not seen the "Rows," as they are called, will be struck with their simplicity, being like nothing else that I have seen elsewhere, In other towns the footpaths run along the streets in front of the houses, but in Chester the footpaths . are through the first floors of the houses, so that they form a* pleasant and dry promenade, whatever the weather may be while the shops seem so snug and comfortable in their seclu sion, that it is difficult to avoid - the temptation of:entering- - them, in order to see their curious arrangements. Then there is the ancient cathedral, with its fine - old clois ters and antique tombs, which will well repay a visit; the old bridge with the weir across- the Dee, over which the river falls in a broad cascade . ; the castle, still garrisoned- with soldiers, with its frowning battlements overlooking- the river ; the Grosvenor-bridge with its single arch of enormous span, and the picturesque Rhodee forming a natural theatre, and perhaps the oldest race-course in the kingdom: From the walls on the northern side' may be seen the canal at a frightful depth, hewn out of the solid rock ; while every street presents scenes so widely different from any thing . which modern towns present, as- to render Chester an object of attraction at all times. Nor is it without natural beauties, as - -the surrounding landscape, bounded-on one side by the tains-of Wales,.is grand and picturesque.- The railway from Birkenhead- to- Chester is only fifteen; miles, so that the journey from Liverpool is performed within= the . hour - ; and as many, in these days of pleasure excur .- sions, are asking themselves• the question—" Where shall: we go ?" lam earning their gratitude by advising them to spend a day- in , Chester. Such an- excursion will make no- . great inroaden•time or purse, while it will present an almost endless succession of novelties, interesting in-every way to all who can appreciate an acquaintance -with- the things of the past, and who-love - to indulge in imagination , their historical recollections: Railway competition- in cheap trains has sent ;* many thonsands.to Southport, both -from Liverpool and Mane: chester. It- might not be amiss- for the- Birkenhead and Chester Railway Company to try a • similar experiment„hefore. the fine weather has departed.- It may-prove advantageous both to the-public and to their own funds.—l-am, sir, VIATOR. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD THE GAS INQUFRY. TEt E special -committee of the Town Connell ,appointed to inquire into -the local supply of gas -met on Friday ; present Messrs. Clint, Hornby, R. Gladstone, Dover, Crosthwaite, Sheil a and ,Bradley. The communications between the,town-elerk and the gas company were read.- The town-clerlewrototo-Mr: Carson, on the 18th, saying :—" The speeial committee on the gas ques tion have retained the, services, of Mr. Clegg,: gag-engineer, tc assist them in_ their inquiries ) .- and he informs- -them that for this purpose he should have access •to the -company's works,. plans of pippage, Sre.. I am, instructed by: the -committee to. request that Mr. Cleggmay be afforded the facilities he reqnires,.. He is stayingut the Adelpa This letter havingheen laid before the directors on the 2Gth,„ together with the report, they . came to the- following resolue tion :—" Resolved—That it appears fromthe above report, that the officers of this who attended the meetings of tho•- committee of the council, have clearly expressed the willingness of the directors -to meet any charges-that may be made agtaet. the company, and in the absence. of any charge being estate liShed, the officers are hereby directed not to attend any further meetings of the committee ) . and that, as-the directors' are in ignorance of what the objects of those whouwar to be urging the inquiry before the committee are i the directors .decline permit any person to have access to tb.eir• works, plans of pipe- . age, &e.." In transmitting th resolution ) Mn.-G...7/. Lawrence the chairman of the company, said :7--"Ltak,e the opporturdy of, assuring you that omobjeetion to continuo the attendance of cur officers at yorx• eornmittee,,antl to throwing open our works, &e., for pubEse. inspection, does net arise from any want of - ...espect to the council, and, least of all. from any apprehenr sion of our inability fully to meet the eletrges which havebeen insinuated against us. We are conscious that we have a com plete answer to them, which we reserve until they reach us in amore definite foam. Meanwhile,. we shall continue •to, ,dis charge the duties• entrusted to us, in conformity wAh our act of parliament and to the best of our ability. The •Crisinswesaid that after the promises which they re calved from the• company, at a,former meeting, the committee were now scarcely treated fairly. In withdrawing from the. inquiry, he theught that the-company had preaaded the coin, mittee to a considerable extent from obtaining that informa tion which they ought to have. Placed as they were, hewever, it ; would be the duty of the committee to take the most advisatde course, in order to make the -best report they could under : the - circumstances, and, ultnateky the following resolution. was passed :—"'The Town-clerkreported that he had written to Mr. Carson requesting that Mr,. Clegg might be permitted to ex amine the works of the-company, and be -afforded facilities for making :: his report, and:, submitted the, following replies re ceived by him. ResolYed, that the committee learn with deep regret and surprise• that the directlrs decline to, give the facilities necessary tunable Mr. Clegg- to institute such au inquiry as will enable him to make a full report as to the works of the company, and that they also decliae to permit the continued attendance of their• officers et the meetings of the committeei, thus depriving the committee- of the means. and facilities of obtaining that information which the officers-- I of the, company had previously expressed their willingness to effort!' - - - In answer to Mr. Reay, Mr,,,TAnNxo-s. stated that the- dry meter was better than the wet. meter, and more corre2t in registering. Considerable discussion next took. plaeo as to retaining the services. of Mr. Clegg ; and:his:report,. so far as he had been enabled to draw one up,r, was. read, It stated amongst other things— "-I do not think there. is. much. the matter with the meters. themselves, either as, regards workmanship or v.taterial ; and as to a respectable company selling short measure knowingly,. I cannot believe it.. Should any such fraud, however, be detected and proved, it ought to be thoroughly exposed and traced to those who, authorised it. " Gas below ks. standard in illuminating power will fully account for all the discrepancy in registering more gas than they ought. Gas below the standardnets in two ways in pro pelling the meters faster than they should. First, gas of inferior specific gravity will flow with greater velocity through the openings; for instance, the average London gas, specific gravity 400, will flow through an opening i-inch in diameter, pressure 1-inch head of water, at the rate of 80 cubic feet per hour; but bi-carburated hydrogen from cannel coal, specific gravity about 700, will flow through the same opening only at the rate of about 70 cubic , feet per hour. It therefore follows that, all circumstances being the same as adjusted for the standard gas, the meter measuring inferior gas will go quicker in proportion to the inferiority of the gas. Then there is another cause for increasing the velocity of the meter, and that is the increased velocity of the inferior gas, and conse quently greater consumption, still falls short of the illuminat ing power of the standard gas. To remedy, this, the openings are increased until the illuminating power is at the standard, and us the inferior gas does not give out so much smoke by a higher flame as the standard gas, the difference to an inexpo. rienced eye is not perceived ; so that, taking both causes toge. ther, the meter may mark on 15 per cent. more gas for the same light than it ought, without the consumer seeing any perceptible difference in his burners. I therefore recommend that the gas be tested at least once a week by' a competent person, but at no stated times; and, if the gas is kept up to the mark, there will not be found, I apprehend, much the matter with the meters, except being over-filled with water by the consumers themselves, in ignorance of the consequence. This defect can soon be remedied :—a defective one now and then, out of so many, there is sure to be. " I examined the illuminating power of the gas at the office of Mr. Newlands, the borough engineer. It is a most elaborate apparatus. But one of the essential tests was not there, and and that is, a thermometer to tell the temperature of the water that the meter works in. A difference of from 40 deg. to 70 deg. will make a difference of about 6 per cent. in the quantity of gas delivered by the experimental meter; but as it was, I found the gas- equal in illuminating, power to 17.89 sperm candles, each consuming 144 grains per hour, and the gas consumed 4 cubic feet per hour. " Your gas inspector, Mr. Taunton, has explained to me his manner of teating the correctness of the gas-meters, which I entirely approve of. Many of the meters so tested le finds 5, 6, and even 10 per cent. fast, and that the meters are mostly filled too high with water, and generally by the renters' servants in ignorance, being told by the gas com pany's servants to fill them well up. But upon this point Mr. Taunton will give his own report. " If the old gas company persist in producing an inferior article, I can see no other remedy than by a new company, who might erect works and lay mains, equal to the present de mand, for £300,000. But if, on the contrary, the old com pany will do their duty, I think it better to let them continue their monopoly than to break up the streets again, but of this the town is the best judge. A new company would be able to sell gas of 20 candles per 4 cubic feet per hour for 3s. 6d. per 1,000, and make a dividend of 10 per cent. After some discussion, the committee adjourned till to morrow (Wednesday), when Mr. Newlands, the borough en gineer, will be examined as to the pipes and breaking up of the streets. LIVERPOOL GAS: COMPANY. THE annual meeting was held on Tuesday, at the offices in Newington. Mr. G. H. Lawrence, chairman of the board of directors, presided. After the annual statement of accounts had been read by the manager, Mr. Steele, the following report for the past year was read ; It is with much pleasure that the directors have to report to the proprietors that the business of the company has pro gressively increased during the past year. The directors have taken steps to provide for the continuing demand for a further supply of gas, by the erection of addi tional works between Edge-hill and Wavertree, and in such a position as will afford to the company the advantage of having the cannel coal brought by railway 'to the works. The directors have now the satisfaction of submitting to the proprietors accounts of a favourable character, not only as re gards the interests-of the proprietors but also of consumers. The anticipated result of the year's accounts ending the 30th of June last, which the directors submitted to the proprietors in the report laid before them at their meeting in August, 1854, has been realised, and the proprietors will ascertain from the accounts now submitted that the reduction of the price of gas within the borough, which took place on the Ist January last, has been fully justified. The directors wish the proprietors to unde:Stand that one great advantage which has assisted them hr bringing the affairs of the company to such a satisfactory result is; that the supply of cannel has been delivered under contracts• made some years ago, at a price much under the present market price. At the half-yearly meeting in February last, a dividend of five per cent. for the preceding half-year on the consolidated stock of the company, and 2s. 6d. per share on each of the £25 A shares, was declared, which together amounted to £22-,521 The profit and loss account, for the year ending 30th of June last, shows the profits of the company for the year to be £49',157 Os. 4d. ; deducting from which amount the above sum of Xt`2,521 55., leaves a balance of £26,635 fss. 4d. applicable to the payment of dividend, and to the reserved fund. By the act of the company, the reserved fund to be provided is £3 per cent. on the paid-up capital of the company, now amounting to £463;l2s—that is to say, a sum 0E13,893 155., and the directors . ' have passed to the credit of thisfund the sum of £3,328 Is. 61,-which completes the total amount new re quired by the act. The directors recommend that out of the above sum of £26,635 15s. 4d., a dividend' of Wiper cent. on the consolidated stock, and 125.-6 d. per sharenn the £25 A shares, be now de.; dared for the half-year ending: the 30th of June last, which, together, will amount to the slim' of £23,156 55., and this sum, with the £3,318 Is. 6d.so carried to the reserve fund, makes the sum of £26,484 6s. 6d., leaving a surplus profit of £l5l Bs. 10d.' The directors feel assured that the above satisfactory result of the operations of those provisions of the company's act of parliament which secure to the consumers, with the increasing , business and profits of the company,.' progressive reductions' -in the price of gas, wiil;demonstrate to-the inhabitants of this community that, by giving to the management of the ccnt pany their confidence and support, they. will obtain the bene fit of further reductionemore speedily than by giving their countenance to agitations; which; whilst they have had the . effect of distracting the attention of those who are entrusted With-the- affairs of the company from their proper and ne= cessary duties; must certainly occasion an expenditure of those . funds - which otherwise would forth the basis of further re— ductions in the price of gas: The directors' first duty is to consider the provisions of the company's, act of parliament, and . to take carethat the pro prietorsd tetheir receiving= a r o t p h re ei j v u ;hcra d Oisenm i m c oal e oirpc d aetuavn r o p r company; ;p paidaoaa r n rfnc y idt um: e l pariteidroyitigenntne7l.l have premiums which bt a t cinehui 07,t;sheer profits tpfieo expended snc t dtta consideredeiro in company, l a t parliamentthelnwa works r y l Ik, a st r n ; f t p: t r b o h i n y e e t s t o i divisible, but,. in fact, only giving to such proprietors a divi dend of £5 percent. per annunt,, and in some• cases- a less divi dend on the amount paid to the company foie their shares. conclusier4 your directore have -to state-that four of the ditecters; namely, Mr. Earle, Mr. Barten, Mr. Larwrence, and :Mi. Mu:ten retire from a& direction, butt are-eligible for re-election. GEORGE: H.. LAWREISCE;.Cliairrnan. The report, on- the motion of the CHAIR:Mr:AV,. seconded by Mr. CHARLES TURNER,' was unanimously adopted - .. The CHAIRWLY moved that a= dividend of five per cent. for 4haluilf , year ending the 30th Xene, be payable; less income ; tax; on the 23rd. inst. The resolution was adoptefl : In reply to a , question by Mr:: C. Turner, the CZAIRAIIN said that early notice would be 4ven of any intention to make call upon the- A uhares. At present they were- not in want of money, but the new works is t render it neeessaey. Mr. Ha Earle,-,Mr.. James Barton, and Mr. IL-Lawrence, retiring directors were re-elected, .and Mr: John Grant Morris was elected i n room , of Mr. Mozley, who • retires from health, Mr. Radley was appointed cue of the anditort,,in room of Mr. Morris. The Cira.m.... - cts .proposed nut the remuneration of the di 'rectors be £5OO per annum fonthe present year.. Mn C. TUR:MR proposed a vote of thanks: to-the directors, :and expresssedlis regret at the attacks made on the Gas Com ypan3r out of doors-, because he. felt that theseattacks were quite ;undeserved.. The chairman had referred to , the determination -of the directors to withdraw from the inquiry : going on before the council. That matter , the- -director& had, douttless wejl -'considered. Whether they had considered:that u withdraw 'ing they mk, , ht be looked upon by the public% taking a too 'hostile view of the matter, his-did not know..;. but if anything of that sort xere the result, it would be most unhappy. It was. most desirable that before the town they should not , appear as regarding the investigation in: a. hostile and - he • thought that their. withdrawing- from further. inquiry might be looked uport in that point of. view. The, eaklE3l4Zi. assuaed Mr. l'lmner that the matter ' alluded to. had received; the best consideration of the: directors. When they first entered, into the investigAtEuu. they me.;; the council in. the most, friefuLV spirit ; tr. 3! quite acknowledged the rieit of, the:council to interfere, and the compfuty felt they had nothing todieguise. But as they were afraid that objections would bo . raised which at the moment it might be (Monk to meat, ..they had come to-,tlie ;conclusion not in, any hostile spirit:, hut with a view to their 'own protection, of withdrawing from Ihe inquiry. His brother :directors were unanimous on the point. When the proper time came they would be prepared to give proper amwers to all charges or objections. This terminated the proceedings._ RMICENHEAJ4,- LANCASHIRE,, AND CENTRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. Tnp half-yearly, meeting of this company v , as held at XottVs Ferry - Hatel,,Birkenhead,, on Saturday; Mr. William Atkinson, of Ashton Hayes,. near Chester, in the chair; the late chairmr.n s . Mr. Bancroft ; , ocrapyipg a seat among the directors. After the usuld.preliminaries, the Secretary, Mr. Glnsox, resit the following PORT. The directors regret that, owing to the severity of the win ter and the depression of trade, the accountsSer the half-year . show a csosiders.ble redaction in the amounof receipts, com , _ pared with the corresponding six months of..- 1854. The receipts inthe half-year eliding 30th. Jane,. 1854, ,amounted; to „ £33,840 4 5, £33,585 /5.27: 30,58`,1 e • 10.8 30,297 13,1 Decrease 23,5D,7 13 9 £3,28Z 19 6 The decrease in goods trafic has taken place entirekpcn. the /Ale between. Chester and Birkenhead, the quantity carried being in the half-year ending 30th June, 184...15...vp, tons. _ 1855...1A3,477, tons. f But it is satisfactory to observe,, that the traffic on. the line between Chester and Manchester continues to. progress, as shown by the following comparison Carried in, half-year ending 30th June, 1854-39 3 723 tons. 18.56,-40,381 tons. Th.,a- expenditure in the goods department has been de creased, but in the locomotiv.e department there, bas been an increase, owing to the high, price paid for- coke and to the peculiar position in which the company is, placed with regard 110. 0.0 Chester station. A reduction in the price of coke has, since been effected, awl a further reduction• is anticipated. when one of the con tracts expires next Christmas. The coaching charges have been augmented by compen sation paid for injuries sustained by an accident which ocr cUrred to a train in January last. All the claims, except one, arising from this accident have been settled, and charged in the revenue account for last half-year. The directors have much satisfaction in reporting that the Birkenhead Docks have been sold to the Corporation of Liver pool. The prospect of the docks being completed by the ori ginal promoters was so very uncertain, that the board felt no hesitation in giving their support to the passing of a bill to promote an object of such vast importance to the interests of the company ; and as the act requires that the works be completed within three years, the proprietors may reasonably look - forward to - the increase of traffic for which the large expenditure was incurred by this company to connect the docks with the railway. A few days after the last half-yearly meeting an intimation was received from the Great Western Company that they had directed their solicitor to prepare a notice of their intention to run their own trains over this lino, but no formal notice to carry their intention into effect has yet been received by this company. The directors regret that the state of the uncer tainty in which they are thus placed, has prevented them tak ing such steps as would have put the arrangements for the carriage of the traffic across the Mersey in a more satisfactory position. The same difficulty presented itself in considering the extent of accommodation necessary for the traffic at Birkenhead; but when the amalgamation of the Liverpool and Birkenhead Dock Trust was completed, plans were obtained for the erection of a warehouse and the formation of a basin on the station at the Great Float : the cost is estimated at £15,000. By this outlay, accommodation will be provided for various descriptions of traffic which could not otherwise be obtained ; and, in conjunction with the system of hydraulic cranes, which is expected to be in operation in about two months, a large re duction in the expense will be secured, and the traffic conducted with more dispatch and efficiency. The estimates include a building, to which it is proposed to remove the head-offices, and, by concentration of the staff, effect economy in the management. The position of the company with respect to station accom modation in Manchester has occupied much of the attention of the board. An offer was received some months since from the Bonding Warehouse Company to dispose of their property in Salford; but after a careful consideration by a deputation of the board, the offer was declined. The directors will continue to give their attention to the subject. • The expenses of Chester station still bear very heavily upon the company, but notice, under the powers obtained in the act for amalgamating thee Shrewsbury and the Great Western Companies, has been given for a revision of the proportions this company should contribute to that station. The alterations in the management referred to in the report to the last half-yearly meeting have been carried into effect, by the appointment of Mr. Charles Mason, as manager, at a salary of £550, an increase being contingent upon increase in the dividends paid to the shareholders. With the view of meeting this increased expenditure, the board recommend that the annual allowance for direction be reduced from £9OO to £6OO. Mr. Gibson, in May last, gave in his resignation of the secretaryship ; and as it has been considered desirable that the offices of secretary and treasurer should in future be combined in Mr. Johnston, who has hitherto been treasurer, there will thus be a saving in the ex penditure, notwithstanding the appointment of Mr. Mason, who will take upon himself the out-door employment hitherto managed by the secretary. Mr. Bancroft having resigned the chair, Mr. Atkinson has been appointed to fill the vacancy. Your directors have seen with regret the remark made in the Great Western report, that their traffic is still obstructed by this company; your directors are not aware that any ob struction has been offered to the traffic of that company during the half year referred to. Your directors have the satisfaction to report that arrange ments are in progress by means of which the relations between your company and the Great Western company, and other com panies are expected to be placed on a more satisfactory and friendly footing, it being the determination of your board to afford to all the companies in connection with this railway the greatest possible facilities for an interchange of traffic, Your directors feel that this policy, pursued with energy and economy, will, at no distant period, place this undertaking in a position more satisfactory to the proprietors. Since last half-yearly meeting, Mr. Gibfr has resigned his seat at the board, and the following directors retire by rota, tion, Mr, Bryans, Mr. Peter Catterall, and Mr. James Brown; consequently there are four vacancies to be filled up, and Mr, H, C. Beloe; one of the auditors, also retires by rotation. The directors recommend that a dividend at the rate of per cent. per annum be declared, and made payable.on the sth Sept., subject to , deduction of Income-tax. _ _ The CHAIRIVP.IP, in moving the adoption of the report, en tered into an explanation of the• causes which had led•to his appearance in the position he held oh that occasion. Referring to the position and: prospects of the company, he deprecated the restrictive clause - im the agre?,ment with the London and: Northwestern, which• prohibited them from carrying foreign traffic from Chester to• Lower Walton at other than local rates. The intention of this was; no doubt ; to prevent the Great Western and ShrewsbmTy traffic from going upon their line, to the great annoyance of that company mid , loss to themselves; The Great Western Company, he understood, had leased land near the docks at Birkenhead for £2,-000 a-year, and had built warehouses and offices, withthe view of carrying on a consider able business ; while they had purchased a number of flats for the purpose of carrying their goods traffic over the river. After reverting to other topics mentioned in the report, and having announced, as his general policy, not ta•'allow himself to be over-reached by any company to the detriment of the Birkenhead• Company, he conclittled by moving the'adoption of the report. Mr. prcrA)ll-1:0 HARPER secondtd the motion. In the course of the disciissio - ic hvANs, a diiector, ex plained, in reply to Mr. Milne, thatthe excessive charge upon the'goods' traffiburose from the difficulties inseparable from a divided right of entrance into the station at Chester. Apart from that, the expense& of their goods traffic were as economi cal as those of any - line in the kingdom. After some obser - Miorss from Mr. Nowinn HAUPE:7, with reference to the claims' of the Great Western Company, and the irapolicy of offering any obstructionto , their traffic coming upon the line, _ _ _ The -. report was unanimously adopted, and the dividend . 'was declared; subject to income tax, and payable on the stri , of September. The knowing were unanimously appoinVed directors in the place of those who had retired:—Messrs. Mlles France Ben nett, of Liverpool, Inn.- Henry Pettijean, John Alexander Hobson, Manchester an& Thomas Hunter Holderness, of Liverpool. Mr. wart& Johustob Iv•as , appointed secrathry, vice M. Gibson, resiOted.. Mr. Beloe-was reappointediauditor. On the proposition of Mr:-BELox, seconded ? - iy 3.1 r. X resolution was unanimoty:adopted, expressiug regret that Mr. Gibson bad .resigned the office of secretary, the duties of which he had discharged withvo much diligeneT and ability. A vote of I:l4Proks to the- chairman termimted the pro ceedings. 1101?R1ELE TRAG:NDY.--CHILaREN 3-TARVED TO 'DEATH.; I 1 LTVE.V.:POOL. Saturday,eneerthe mostpainfutand harrowinzgiiquiries aver held before the Borough coroner Itlis investigited, dis 31esing an unparalleled degree of parental inhumanit,w on be half.of the prisons -1-s, William and Mary Aspinol, two.of;whose children have diedifrora starvation,,while the life of =other is road, mid. on Fri&ii..mecning, aftena quezrel, which rased the despaiwd of. Thie•prisoners livadi Delon-place, \ --, u;shall- Miole-uteighbourtood„ the. femalepri sonen - called to a police men„ and said th..*muk of her children .had; clued on We y, from the cruelty et the male prirroner.:. The officer cn, this for a surgeon; and, by his advice,_ke• took the proner totbridtAvell. Information was Oen:given, to Mr. Blaka,,the coroner's beadle, whoi.on going to the. hour of the prisoners %and several chililren: almost blark.vrith,filth, and in a perfect state-of nudity. One..about four 7cars- old, named William Valentine, was huddld up on a like-a dog. This. poor child: was so emaciated. that, though now well attended to. by the dispensary surge.ons, his life is: despaired of. One clißd, named Emma, a little,girl about & year and ten months old, was. did in bed,. n. mere dirty skeleton, most horrib . ..e- to look, at, and anotherahild about fourraonis old, who diednn Pricier/ night, while Mr.. Blake and the surgeon were present, from evident starvation. The biggest-held, on Saturday-was solely on the bedY : _of . the child Emma.,. The jury and. the coroner both v;zited the house where these dreadful scenes occurred, and were- quite horror-struck... with the sight,. the premises being dirty and desolate to. a degree scarcely The coroner,- Informed the jury.- that he had requeslzd a medical man to 'visit the house in... Al i -elk the bodies lay;. and that, he was aceompanied by Itiln; :Walters,. of the Towr.t.liall, for, the : purpose. of having photographic- representations of the two deceased taken. The jury slimild be- told that tha man then before tham..had been given, intecustody in consecnenee of a statement made by his wifel..butJw did not know that he should be- thing his duty, after-Islet he had seen and been informed og.,itihe ditl not requi2a that. the wife be alsnappre hended. . _ _ A woman here; stepped forward from the body of the murk, I and said, in, 9,:10ud and excited tone. of voice,;" I am the sir, and I'll,come I'll come.' She ; was then taken into.cus r tody, and placcclt;eside her hrsiUricl,..who took not theslight est notice , eC her. The female prisoner is apparently about4o ' years of age,. under the middle height, slightly foraged,. and . has a rather• genteel appearance,. She was attired h a black.. Coburg ices,. black flounced visite, black transparent : bonnet, and blaekjace veil ; nevertheless,.her physiognomy was sinis ter, and: ;:i manifested indicaticas,,of irregularity of life.. dressing the coroner, she said.,'When I made tie r charge I: did ao.aiust my husband, I tunst.have been out of u.ky senses I I must., have been mad; aird, : l now exonerate him from alt.,; blame. If there is any blame, it is with myself—itliwith,rno.!' The first witness was John_Aspinol, the eldest, son .of the.; accused,.a lad about seventeen years of age. 1 - I , :said that.his.. father: was a clerk in the London and North Western,liailway offiee,.at a salary of £7s.a.year, and that he 12itoself receivedi 8.-....a.vieek, which he either gave to his father or his mother, There were of the family, ,:live, five brothers.aucl, ; two sisters. mma died on Wednesday,afternoou, and his brother. on .Frida t y evening, their bodies Using quite wasted away.. The deceased, Emma, was not able to,w3llk, but sometimes sat.ouher mother's knee. He had heard his father complain. that she wasatot taken proper care of.; He also deposed Hl* his.father and mother often quarreled, generally on aceount i of. his.,uu:ather spending a portion, of the household money, in.dria.. His mother did not geeerally treat the deceased,kindly,andlle had seen it naked in a dish on the sink. He. and , his, father often came home and found no food prepared. for them,, and the mother quite drutAlg,..- The dead childriaLoftetl,crave4 for food, which was giveu,them by his lather and ,sister,.but he didn't remember his mother giving them any.. This witness's ac count o' the state of their house was, most painfuli to listen to. It was dirty spa disorderly, and the.childrew &IRA sometimes on the boards..and sometimes on the flag stones of the kitchen. The window. ,and furniture were, broken,, am.li everything in confusion. Mary Apieiol, daughter of the prisoners, about fourteen years of age,, gave similar evidence,. to. that of the previous witness. She stated that previous to. the last fortnight the deceased was healthy and hod food,. but she could not tell if she 11E4 enough. The deceascdwes. frequently washed in the sink by- her sister, a child, eight years of age. She caught. cold,,and deceased appeared to.wa.ste away about a week before. she,flied. When food was. given to the deceased, the others children often pinched her and, took it from her. Her mother used to drink, and she andthe father quarrelled very ofteniucou scvences On Thurs4sy last her mother drank a quart, of ale, which she purchased with money given to her by her son (the first witness). She often pledged things for her mother,. who spent the money in drink.. Sometimes they were two,or three days without food.. but not all day. Latterly her. father and brother purchased, the. food for the house, and they. often could not stay while she (witness) cooked it. Mr. Geo. Xerap, surgeon, said he had made-a/Jost mortem examination of the body of the deceased. lie never saw such a case of emaciation; the eyes were exceediogly sunken, and the arms and. legs quite wasted away to a skeleton. The heart was healthy but empty ; the lungs healthy but of a light grayish colour; and the entrails totally devoid of either fluid or feed sufficient to fill a dessert spoon. He had no doubt but that the deceased died of starvation. it was the worst ease of the sort he ever saw. The bones of the deceased pro, traded in several places through the skin. The appearance presented by the body of the deceased could not be produced by disease. Mr. Salter, cashier of the London and Northwestern Rail way Company, said the male prisoner received In a-year, paid monthly, and his son £2O a-year, paid fortnightly. The prisoner had several times asked for his salary in advance, alleging domestic difficulties as the reason lie did so. John Aspinol recalled—A Mrs. Smith, he said, sometimes visited them , -she was at their house on Thursday, but he could not tell when she was there before. The male prisoner said that he and his-son bad frequ&tly to walk the streets till all hours of the night, as they could not stop in the house, the female prisoner, when in a state of intoxi cation, throwing plates, dishes, &c., at them, and breaking the windows and furniture. She never washed the children more than once a fortnight on the average, and he was frequently obliged to cook food for them. The children and their mother were generally in bed when he and his son came home. The female prisoner said that her husband frequently got money which he refused to give her, and that although she and the children were very often without food, he reused to give her money either for• food or other necessaries, and he had several times beaten her and abused her when she asked him for money,• Her husband on one occasion lately asked her to go in a public house, and because she refused he beat her so severely that she was forced to break the windows to call [AuGusT 28, 1855. for help. She had previously been in a business whi her to keep herself and children, and she had tola u t that if he would leave her alone she would not wan t o He had taken a vast amount of her own propertY to PI tie After a lengthy summing up, from the Coronr,..e, returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" agaZitcf,DP Boners. The male prisoner, on hearing the ve e s od and his wife, who a moment previously had r reP braided him, now called him by endearing narn e ' jt liatlit herself for saying ought a gainst him, and de clared one of the kindest and best men in the frorld. loobe d The Coroner said that the children would be by the Workhouse officials. 101 On Saturday Mr. Carr, the Governor of ho sfk, accompanied by Mr. Blake, went to the prisone% e ig placed an experienced nurse in attendance Ron for with means to obtain everything that raigbt towards aiding their recovery. tl YESTERDAY, An inquest was held on the body of Thoinas 'Lite pinol, aged four months. . tbe °,l The first witness examined was John AsPinl e son, who gave similar evidence to that ITbichter, Saturday.—Mary Aspinol, the eldest daugh ti`o deceased died on Friday evening. Ile slept tier sad three days before he died. Had seen her child ; but she did not appear to have plenty °f lcit l) ,!l l heard her mother say she was short of null' fed the child with a spoon, as much as he, cc ' e - d ft# during the last two or three , days the child rein!, to t o',l She observed him to waste away. Her father ho.u . , Psi opportunities of seeing the state the child was 11° p slept in the same bed with his father and ntotlit;•o4, night-dress and other clothing. Her father ar , my./ often quarrelled about her mother getting drily nee, " r 'O' day witness's brother gave his mother sixP e ~t b ek,/ mother sent her for a pint of ale, and then forkl:"bott she drank. A deal of money was spent 'W ill i/ r mother and her father. When witness went for t was plenty of food hi the house.—Policeman FAA said his attention was• first called to the e 011 1 , a 01M lug about four o'clock. He was on duty CO'.n, ,9110,V,, when Mrs. Aspinol came from a back-door 3 11 ,_u 1,4 to protect her from her husband. She said Pe shamefully, and murdered one of the childreiltie starvation. There was one lying dead in t he another dying aside of it. Witness went 0 1 ,16 , 1; Eldon•place, and knocked three . times but c ti .°' l , ( d i re mission, though he heard so .times; me• erne insid e. the' cellar window to the back door, and lino do fe d , n ,w' prisoner asked what hewanted ; ' ' 11 ' ). and refu se another officer was going for assistance , prisnner opened the door. He had athick Witness- asked him what he had hie d " l 'V" done toj t y when+ he - replied, "Ask me no questiOns, 911 , e 0 1 t 0 lies." Witness took him into custody. SO ° ' - c f o '4) dren dead, and another in a very bad state, ak o oA, dispensary for medical assistance.—Mr.Edval.,Y be at the North. Dispensary, in Vauxhall-road, 53 0 , 1 ` . . / trips , by the lastwitness to go to 64, Eldon-place: ,`"„i, house he found a female child in bed in the I ";`, Li e tk o t s. vr2 deceased lying beside it. It was in • • 13 5 .° a rely r o e A. emaciated, andwasted almost to a skeleton. jt ovb the child had had no food for 1 urs. the( some io o f , . afterwards, and witness made an examinati on 1,1 o'6 the presence of Mr. Fletcher. He found no 0.' 4 1. 0 j, on the surface but it was considerably en 3sc ),fitO its folds; and the bones prominent. The ofo A fi ratively healthy there was about half a sr - 0 0 e' gested food in the stomach- Thero was a total g jo t ty e: on any of the tissues, and witness attributed t r. l' e ,eto i jOi o bp v h a orieu t sp i n tri ftvede i ar n p,opa t ui h nite e ddt c cut P oor . : u r t S ehi e dde e oo f en t drt h o airifmV court. he could not do so without bette an r realsloelliTe—.Y. to have I—Zilli:eorCf.art.:l;; wards a juryman called' the attention of tu e ftr; asaidmbi‘ theafter gaveuTher been e assistedmust n laughs rltDtaisisgtili iv timmatoawtiwti:77h,T a eg,etn t , 13eep t Foest I rne l le e snesNit. p itiicebhmo r hyru i aie s otdsr o nso : ::.37.uti ri tle , t 4 et a iilotas t teuloa t ; l ean, sn l oai l ;a e oi:cilf w :i:etridea a htbao s eleke t ete u evt.bhxrt r .aluia n 3tlr e .n.te d aii;3o: o :s3 ; l i ga t iv i .l l ,loo l l ,;: o ;;e : b y; aaslsriewprirahasnodednen,roatilidiindvhiteiotlesl witness s d y r ie f ix o ez t imee li p i i n tf g t t; :s l4 fi i. :i l e li c o b t . b a otif. hea t cst taid n as lchtha as o tsh r a o aat n pdup e r r de re u t al h yerei : e idbo n :teitr a ieli d rieliovoi d . bhar r cdsa e a se iosebu: t,2:ntt d ,i.tec t p 010 1 e i arre e t,lst i ti eia ;r ere i r ad c et; c i lir.:fistf, el d rfiita ff ,e,: i v..,,,,ee. : ! . , Al 3 _ 4 lO • it nd, • th cr Joe ro( a in p v hO eSt t i o g g a ra tio p n h of the deceased, -as it would be• difficult ty r o' -O h ', tion an adequate idea of the t' t rot i ,e o tared at some length into the law- as n . c p a pPi T t li4 ` .. tet the respective parents in cases-of' death oc!; te et.;, - , lsoe neglect of supplying children veiihnourisir„,) remarked on the condutt of the. indivior, o (1,0 0 ', ;e 07 turned out of the court, and who;. be 1 10° `"ril e primary cause of the disagreement, betivel „tol commented on tha-evidence as iFaPPlieci e be 0 ,3; 09 ease, and left it to •the jury to say whether/1,4,0,0t rishment, of which i# was evider.t the chil d , b o th, ° 'l l of gross negligenor, and. whether that 0 , vrw paren hai t. and if so, wit of them. . re t u rned 5 T m jn u r t y cier a lg er nat brief both s ESS lirisoasc 1. Larr E 1? P o against t be —em TESMICDAY, the general quart er smie r the borough co m menced before GBert 17ea 01,4;4 Reterder. The calenjar contained then _arn.,0:510.1 soner3 , -charged with feloi3y, and for Wi t/ The- ibllowtag 'gentlenieri•were sworn ion GIUND Jragri ThomBOIICII, broker, Oldhall-street,,f o re ie is ,„g Chtiitopher Bushell, wine broker;...Nortn PI" Sarauel.B . Ulley, share bioker, Hackin'a-hePt, Thomas , Arthur Bushi#, broker, Dale-st re ltree t " • Samuel Marshall Holley, broker, Bamford' t, John'lratort, broker, Oldliall-Street. ,„stte c t Robert Crosbie, tobacco. broker, North J ° S,,,,atre e Frederick Chapple, merchant, .South ,Cas' . ; ? t, Henry-Cram, ship broker, South Jelin-str`" io,to Jolre.Deister, wine merchant, Eiclar.o 4 John , •Dirtton, broker, Exchange-buildinP' Robert bison, merchant; Rumford 4/1 10- f ee t Edward Eceles, broker, Chapel-street - , Thomas. Stanton Eddowes.,-anehor-ernitL'il, Marwelr Hyslop,' merchant, Canning--stru'sie& William Griffith Leete;hroker, Sweetiug' James- Little. rectifier,. Rodney-street.. Rol'ert Makin, the younger,broker,..Bi Wilatins Moore, soap manufacturen.Va- The- PZCVAIDER then, proceeded to .addre: ° . the liet before him, which was fuller thaw t ße , contained the names of 10 prisoners- sen d '5ll course-- of. five weeks. There were , but whichflie had to make to , them far• the 1 9 1„ t etror. them the cases that wouldhe brought 1' e ,' 0 111 4 ",,,,, t iii was auase of house-breaking, in. which „15rt,, the thief' entered through. ',the- beak y 1; had no, fastening, ; but if - they should be, of „' i t window, had been shut °down,. the• opel" n „, ° the- sash would be a, breaking- into There-,• was also a mse,- of obtaining, pretences, in which a p0,1541a .by re p re senting v ue were saver, induced the - pawntrokm-s t° P ,1 " 1 101 Tauze than they worsld otherwise , have dol e jo t they were - not silver at. all: this 1 1 ° 0 0ce0Y,fi advanced many different-theories,. For i° 0)0 1 0 sal any of them (thojitry)an, nose:and horse'ott,,s74 ranted to be sound, WI attorney . .. w.2ald tell t l t le tlG t ` firt use proceeding againstAiiin b°, 1 . 0 11,v1 1 .0:1 proceeded against onAltewarranly. Not to P'.4#l a learned argument on the.reatter, he thoog i would be for them tr.t.nud: the wig. Theagh be light, he was notlnite• so sure that crim e nishing in the town,Arecalm., from the late i r " , it ' O l4l found that there wereSfss persons in Prit;„l" • ; 11 'esii time—more than the average ; and, in trll.'f.'o4 that fewer persoris had been sent to the also found that them bad been a firmer 1 1 7,00 1 V tit convictions, and,that a larger number of „,ac „ fined in prison.' Rather it was another ° I ` A , s lo' l l4 l er r :ri ( jt, offenders than a dimhsvition of crime wen ch r , ""' in their calendars. 'Far be it from hiest4S 0 0/ 0 , , importance e , summary convictions. 1 1 . 3 '..!: 4 .5r,,,5 1 so" that the gyeatest part of the criminal basti - n f tP"4" . , . was admintstered by the summary decis:o l.s- fver i ,. and he beteved that, as their intelligen c d ; ib e atTpri d i; confidence. of the public increased, til a " af , ',;r, e " would be eardeuded. At the same tirae,.sloaf. A 0_ 1 " were tied;with regard to measures of Pu n e it T ev.„ also always be a proper proportion obse!l v cases sent to the higher courts, Qtlierw':,iordrtaA, would he, too much lenity in the punk or„e? io: o i h r e woulcil find the number of offenders. 0 ° eo rtroTroarl , ;.. becausethe hands of them agistrates, to r °,,. 1 0 ,,( 0 ',(0' p it tied& He therefore rejoiced when. he' cases,, more powers were given: to tlicia,rett'd 1 - 4 ad- of parliament passed this. session V ri f t (elio Recorder) had had the, honour o ' f I n F 1 1 1 . 0 Lions, which he thought had , been. ack . a2te;',i ot of the powers of summary jariscliction not ° w ieoi, to r, Far instance, where a party scgn ie l t lP l efOltl the magisteate, instead. Of seliding h ce gico• s to receive sentence,, might satf - IPJ In other cases, where. a person 114 s oil' oier'a summarily convicted when sent to th' so ole . , 0 1C(09/4 lible to penal servitude. The want of J o , 0 4 1 had been severely felt,. because when a'°ol Coto 0911 or twelve times summarily convicted m er ely , c aw, 010 i" (the Recorder) it was almost hopeles g , ce , Ale prison. His hands had been tied, an d }1 ; w oo' 0 5e - him to imprisonment. This new i? c 5 01 0 ilu t e, )l e useful measim of punishment, v erY ati) e *, passed. A time was drawing t t ni c onst,,.s l o o lt st many persons.—he meant, the annua „, l ose or toe formerly regretted that, at one time,:.`:434 to .t ol .4 0 liberal in granting licenses. He""a'atioptO'flliretlie the other view seemed to have been 1. ,., be r f o r, , trews. seemed to have limited the thotcootsfurt, necessities of the public, and he d id "" tottt itec oor o or good order, they would persever° ' occasion, _as the judge of that eoo re edit Ogli acknowledge a fresh and most imporl i l le to el 1,0 poration of Liverpool. It was imPop o poral et ' er e et): without being reminded with %vila_ es 4100 , the Corporation had provided for_ : 5 A : the administration of justice. B ut '' t here w t part in the administration of justictr;_ io3 o of t? ho ought not to be forgotten:4 ° the 13 /„0 01 ,1 0, 7 11 parties who had offended, again!' . 0( 1111 0 „ero art, The Council of the borough, deteir;for st eel s° ,c .c i t wanting on their part to Pr°vi(seonfine'lleriiiSciP"l-'edPe vast expense, built a Oleo of f - r isco) ...disp!' ; tr ,e that the best known system .o n cce o le „ it „ carried out. There, in seclusto o f 0 Ati !If% from doing mischief, and be 1 url' op jit,L;lo .o i The Council; he - had no -doubt, r v.°_., ers so c 1 11 c and religious influence for tl il te . ,p_ e i s s s 'll io ",") ty ktely been his privilege to ._ t _r eci iiii3 e' X ! ii with which the magistracy vi l io t iWiio_draisdpboseepdrpolcotnecler,freogfint e ti i i i ie l i fl , t s i o e 2 , 2 : t c rl ' icift ‘ , :: t o t.l u epro o rrl l o,,, " c ii . ( 1 care and watchfulness with whichet. their (T t e e S:oo 6 ; ea''' in si ie la h u io d p ab ed le th o le hj security from crime. ,„ to piece, grand jury were tilt ut.. • • t e o et n ' n ti i ' d td thraiablistacnotrnsmaenndeete7se who resoit to iot' ;110 1 ' s , t 1r 14. /fr,,j 107 0 ,0 0 ' lot , ' r re 10, ..,