The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-19 00:00:00

EBRIUR Y 19, 1836, 411.1 The LT ER THEATRE. CHURCH.STREET. Fifth Appearance this Season of Miss E. 11A-mit ToN, Mr., Mrs., and Miss F. LELI.E.ReQ, Miss MARGARET Luct.micca, the Infant Prodigy, 3lr, RAE. and various other Performers. 'PHIS present FRIDAY, th(f I9:h, and TO-MORROW, (Saturday,) the 20th instant, will be performed • THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ. Principal Characters by Mr. Raymond, Mrs. Raymond, Mr. W. J. Hammond, Mr. Rae, Mrs. Herbert, &c. A new Ballet called CUPID AND ARIADNE. In which Mr. and Mrs. Leclercq, Miss F. Leclercq, and the Infant Prodigy, Miss M. Leclercq, wilyappear. The Interlude of _ THE MAN OF TRAV4IIS. O'Blunder Mr. Ralimond, in which he will sing "The Rael ould Irish Gintleman." To conclude with the Extravaganza of DON GIOVANNI. Don Giovanni Miss E. Hamilton. Leporelln....Mr. W J. Hammond. A new extravatTant Burletta, called THE JEWESS TRA . YESTE LEAVE WIT p OUT LICENSE, is in re . hearsal, and ; or, will be speedily roHduced. AMPHITHEATRE. MOST BRILLIANT NIGHT OF THE SEASON. FIRST NIGHT OF THE BRONZE HORSE. For the BEN gmN MOND A y B ENEFIT of Mr. ARMISTEAD, Proprietor. Evening next, the 22d instant, the Perform anceskJ will commence with a Grand Chinese Tale of En chantment, entitled THE BRONZE HORSE, 'Whi c h Or , THE SPELL; will be produced with New Scenery, We! • Decoration F. Mr. RYAN'S Superb STUD of H9(SES. A Comic Interlude, calle THE TINKER L D, 111 w hich Mr. ROMER, from the Theatr oyal English Opera House, London, will make his F st appearance. Brilliant Feats of HORSEMANSHIP by Mr. RYAN'S The wh o l e to unrivalled Equestrian Company. conclude with, for the Last Time in Liverpool, .sses, and the popular Drama of the . JEWESS; Ticket s Or, The COUNCIL of CONSTANCR. aud Places to be obtained of Mr. A.nsitsTrun, at the Box-office, al the Theatre. Dress Boxes, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 61 Stage Manager, Mr. STIRLING. IVIASTER HUGHES'S FAREWELL CONCERT will take place on WEDNESDAY, the 2d of March, at the Bold-street, under the immediate Patronage of the Worshipful, the MAyon; on which o imsion, by the kind • permission of Lieut.-Colonel G. P. Be HAW, the BAND of the 77th Regiment will attend, and rfornt several grand Overtures. Full particulars of the Concert will be duly announced. Zbc Libcrpool *tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 19, 1836. We have received Jamaica papers to the 3d January. W e do not find in them any news of much interest. The holidays had passed over quietly enough ; but we regret to perceive that loud complaints are made of the unfit ness of some of the stipendiary magistrates, the ineffi ciency of the police, and the alarming increase of crime. The assembly had adjourned for the holidays. We can only make room for the following extracts : (Front the Kingston Chronicle, 29th December.) We have to congratulate our readers on the agreeable termi 'nation of the five first days of the Christmas holidays, without any txtraoidinary disturbance of the public peace. For al though the fiddling, firing., drumming, and dancing, interspersed with all sorts of vocal discord, both sacred and profane, have been incessant during day and night, still they have been of a cheerful, merry, and hilarious character, and without tincture of turbulent licentiousness or riotous excess; and if our ac counts from the country are equally pleasing, we shall bail th em as a proof that the population feel happy and content, 444 to pursue their usual avocations cheerfully at the oot ntnenceineut of the new year. Indeed, if they were not teil ed by mercenary hypocrites, we are convinced the negroes of Sarnalca would be about the happiest race of people on the 1 / 1 " , of the earth. Their worldly cares and anxieties will not commence till after the expiration of the apprenticeship, when, should they be persuaded to abandiiin agriculture, their real saaerings will begin ! ! ( From the Kingston Chronicle of the 2d January.) Nothing can be a stronger proof of the good policy of encou raging emigration than the fact of its not being partially recom mended by one particular colony or party, but that throughout all the British colonies plans are in active operation to promote this necessary measure as the only possible means of securing future cultivation. At Grenada the agricultural society have passed resolutions proposing a tax upon all employers who do not import five Europeans to every hundred negroes, which, if tarried int 6 effect, is likely to secure good discipline on the estates, as the managers would naturally import persons skilled in agricultural pursuits and capable of superintending and ex pediting; the manufacture of their produce. They would also add strength to the militia of the land, and secure the proprietors sszainst the rebel threats of physical superiority—the pride and inertion of lazy, licentious paupers would be subdued; and nests of thievish, indolent squatters would be rooted from their dormi tories and compelled to earn their bread by honest labour. The Unprotected state of the land in this country, open as it is to the robbery and plunder of every vagrant marauder, is the grand evil proprietors have to contend against, as it is very certain that whilst the negroes have the power of stealing the proprietors produce with impunity, they will never trouble themselves to Work A cordon of white yeomanry traversing the interior of the country would tend in a great measure to check this dishonest traffic, and, combined with a really efficient police, would give security to the country. In short, we trust the very liberal grant of our assembly will be so judiciously appropriated as to give a beneficial stimulus to agricultural enter prise, calculated to induce emigrants of the best character and quality to settle in the island; and even those who cannot succeed in the smaller colonies may be willing to emigrate to this. Our files frpin Demerara reach only to the 12th De cember, and they are exceedingly uninteresting. The committee to try the conduct of DANIEL O'CON NELL in the affair of RAPHAEL and the Carlow election, was appointed on Tuesday, and will meet.to nominate a chairman to-day. The speech of Mr. HARDY, the mem ber for Bradford, in stating the case against O'CONNELL, Was clear and eloquent, and in point of argument, irresistible. The defence of the accused was little better than a confession of guilt, the denials being in general te rms, and the greater part of it wholly irrelevant. He d id not attempt to refute any of the charges, or explain lu What way he conveyed the money to VIGORS his most unprofitable accomplice. As the man is now on his trial, we shall for the pre sent refrain from saying a word more relative to him. AS to the committee we have no fault to find with it; for tie care little what decision they may come to, provided they sift the case to the bottom, and lay the whole evi dence before the people of England. Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK is to conduct the inquiry, and Mr. Sergeant WILDE, fit counsel for such a client, is to protect the in terests of DANIEL. There is no game now-a-days that is worth the shoot ing, eating, or making presents of. Hares, partridges, Pheasants, and muir-cocks are at a discount. What every body can procure for a greasy half-crown cannot possibly be Worth the dressing. To call such things delicacies would be to libel every fishmonger and poulterer in the three kingdoms. But we remember the time in London when a dapper shopkeeper of Cheapside, or an attorney's clerk, took a ast deli g h t i n endeavouring to pass f or a gen tl emen o f fashio n by walking westward with a brace or two of par tridges, and a conspicuous label attached, dangling from Zl.e b aud, while he carried a switch in the other, looking th all the self-importance of a newly-inducted church beadle o r a modern town-councillor. The label bore, e p r -, -4 P% " A.DOLPHUS MUGGINS, Esq., with the Duke of 4rTZhALBAN'S Compliments." e Coc kney wished the world to believe that the game v : -1- P r esent to himself from his friend the duke. The however, probably never saw a duke in his life. hail bought the birds at a sly stall in Leadenhall th "'tot, in order to "show off" under false pretences. SVe understand, with much pleasure, that this nuisance is considerably abated in the metropolis; and it is the only advantage which has resulted from the reformed g ame laws- Mr. WILLIAM EWART is one of the few Persons we know who continues the practice, and pa rades bills in the House of Commons and elsewhere which he does not choose to confess h o w he came by them. We do not mean to say that they are not his own, far less do we insinuate that he steals them ; but never theless we should like to hear it explained how Mr. EwArtr came by the game which be has been exhibiting in the house within the last few days, passing it off as killed on his manor in Scotland, and handling it with the ecnplaeencv of ownership. Re will understand what we mean. His bill for the e qualization of West India and East India sugar was hatched by Mr. CHARLES GRANT, of Inverness, the pre sent Loid GLENELG. Our respected and liberal member is only labouring with characteristic conceit upon ,a bor- rowed id2a, and as we are confident he is unconscious the mischief his measure is sure to produce, it would be as well for him to confess it: We should not have noticed the subject at all had we not been assured that ministers have agreed to support the bill, and that there is a probability that it will be car ried 'in the present session. The difference or duty against the East Indies amounts only to Bs. per cwt. Mr. EWART proposes to reduce this to perfect equality, by taking off 2s. annually for the next four years, at which time the apprenticeship period in the West Indies 0411 have terminated. But he has not told us what benefit the community or the consumers of sugar are to derive meanwhile. The first two shillings would only add to the profits of the grocer and sugar refiner. The sum is not practically di visible so as to affect the price of a pound weight of su gar. The labouring classes would not save a single frac tion by the experiment. The four shillings of the se cond year would be equally indivisible; while at the end of the fourth year, when the whole eight shillings are taken off, and supposing the relative price of sugar to remain the same, the extent of the benefit to the public would not exceed a halfpenny per lb. in the reduction of _..his were all, we should have left the borrowed scheme to proceed unmolested under the protection of its witless advocate ; but supposing that the reduction of duty should lead to extensive and greatly increased im ports of East India sugar—imports likely to inundate the market —what, in the name of justice andhumanity, is to become of the West India planter and his emanci pated but helpless labourers ? It would be well for the blustering philanthropists of this age of cant to consider the effects of a reduction in the price of sugar upon the black population, whom the planter might no longer he enabled to employ, might be compelled to desert, leaving them, without medical aid or religious instruction, to re lapse into barbarism, and sink down to the lowest depths of demoralization. The measure would lead to injurious consequences in another way. The West India planter has at present, with the paltry advantages which are left to him, but a cheerless prospect. He may or he may not succeed in training his emancipated slaves to be industrious free labourers. We do not believe that they are capable, by any process of education, of being converted into indus trious labourers, except by some oimpulsory law. But admitting, for the sake of argument, that they can be so trained, and that the planter has at present every possi ble inducement to persevere in his efforts to render them obedient and industrious, useful to him, to themselves, and to society, how can he be expected to persevere in the face of this equalization bill, which must naturally alarm him and make his chances of success more doubt ful the nearer he approaches the termination of the ap prenticeship ? Its tendency is to shake whatever portion of confidence he has in his own powers, or in the ho nesty, good faith, and generous policy of the government. He may reason in this way—lf the British legislature admit India sugars on equal terms with West India su gars in 1840, what is to prevent them from admitting Brazil and other foreign sugars on the same conditions in I 1845 ? These, we beg to state, are no imaginary fears. They are founded upon the reasoning and the conviction of several eminent and experienced West India proprie tors. We have reason to know that if the equalization bill pass into a law, there are many of them who will abandon their plantations before this time two years. They are disposed at present to try the emancipation ex periment faithfully, strenuously, and conscientiously; but if new obstacles are to be thrown in their way, and new competitors brought from India into the British su gar market, they will despair of success, and retire from a moral struggle in which they are enduring more hard ships than the emancipated negroes whom they are making every sacrifice to civilize. But we shall return to this subject. All our readers, of course, recollect the fable of the frog and the cow. In that fable they will see reflected the absurd and inflated manners of the liberal members of our new town council. Like the dancing-master in Roderick Random they indeed cut their capers by the book, but a clown of mature age can hardly be rubbed into a gentleman. It is amusing, and sometimes pitia ble, to mark the change which office produces in certain persons, who, forgetting whence they came or what they are, consider themselves a superior class of-mortals to he men of the common world. But of such is our new council chiefly composed. The haughty and aristocratic airs which some of them assume, in the discharge of their official or delegated du ties, might become old Dog berry, and in him would only provoke laughter; but they must excite very different sensations, which we have no wish to describe, in those who know them intimately, and have known them under other circumstances. This littleness of mind, united with the self-importance of official station, which hap pens to be entirely new to them, and the duties of which they do not understand because they cannot appreciate the narrowed responsibilities of their authority, leads them into blunders every day, which are amplified, ac cording to poetic license, into the standing jokes of the town. Four-and-twenty tailors, on the afternoon of a Monday holiday, employing logarithms for the purpose of ascertaining the stitches and clippings in a pair of breeches, would not be the subject of richer humour than the figures mathematical and rhetoi ical, which the philo sophers of the ToWn-hall resort to in elucidating ques tions of the plainest description, and which a ploughboy would instantly resolve by the rules of common sense. But no ; common sense is held in small repute by our popular and liberal Solons. They must be starched to appear genteel; presuming to evince their power; rude to show their contempt for other men ;. pompous for the purpose of being formal, and insolent to extort respect from those who heartily despise them. In short they delight in the display of powers which they do not pos sess, but which they assume only to make themselves ri diculous. It is, we suppose, owing to the self complacency n Itese men that they are so glaringly inconsistent. Ir the pride of office they have forgotten all their former professions, and lay claim to that which they laboured hard for years to wrest from the hands of their predeces sors. Is there a person so young as not to know that a vast proportion of the members of the new council have contended during the greater part of their lives that the trustees of the dock estate ought to be chosen from and elected by the rate-payers, and that those who contributed to the estate should have the power to elect its managers. We have heard no other song from the liberal party for the last tenryears. They contended that the corporation had no right to manage the dock estate ; and even if they had, that they were very unfit persons to be entrusted with its management. Surely if that argument had ever any weight it ought to have weight now, and be respected and acted upon by the parties who propounded it. Are the members of the new council more respectable, intelli gent, or independent than the members of the old corpo ration ? We answer no, far from it; why then should they claim for themselves what they would have denied to others ? They tell us that the corporation, now being open to the inhabitants, the electors will always take care that the best men in the town will be returned to the council. We deny the inference—we prove its fallacy by pointing to the present batch of empty-headed talkers who fill the chairs at the Town-hall. But admitting that popular election is the best mode for securing eligible coun cillors, which we only do fur the sake of argument, ' what has that to do with the dock estate ? What have four-fifths of the inhabitants of Liverpool to do with the docks ? They pay no rates— they have no funds invested—they hold no dock bonds. The inha bitants of Shore-ditch, the Tvlinories, and Ratcliff High way, in London, have as much right to elect the directors of the Bank of England as the majority of the inhabitants of Liverpool hare to elect dock trustees. The inhabi tants did not elect trustees—they elected councillors to conduct the affairs of the town, and not to interfere with the dock trust. But it would seem that these liberal councillors wish to elect themselves into the trusteeship without consulting either the rate-payers or the inha-bi., THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD LIVERPOOL POL TC E .—Tcr.sp Ay (Before THOMAS Jades Ha Li., Esq.. the Mag:st rate.) AN AG erawoe:—Jatnes Tinsdale. a hair dresser, was brought up charged by George Tinsdale, his uncle, with agitating him. The complainant said, I live in Meadow-street, and he is my nephew; he told his mother yesterday that he was determined to agitate her. 'Last night, tiout half-past twelve o'clock, he came to my door drunk, and agitated it till five o'clock this morning. I called the watchman several times , but w h enever I called him he agitated himself off, and then, as soon as the watchman was gone, he came agitating back again. He had left his situation and run away. The prisoner said he had left his situation for another, and was out a little the night before; but it was his mother's house that he went to and wanted admittiug into. The complainaut—lt is my horse. It is not your mother's house. He wants me to keep him, your worship. He is de termined to agitate me. Tha Magistrate.—Did he ever ill use you in any way? Complainant. —No ; but he has threatened. The prisoner was discharged on his promise not to go near his uncle's house again. AN ABUSER.—John Clarke was brought up charged by Robt. Johnson, one of the new police, with having abused every body and thing he came near. About four or five o'clock the day before, prisoner went into a respectable house . in Pitt-street, and abused Mrs. Brown, and split the nail of the landlady's finger. He then went down the street and abused Mr. Davis' window, and broke eight panes of glass in it worth 2s. 6d. each. He went after him, and found him concealed under some boards in a work shop, and lying on his mouth and nose. When he pulled him out of his hiding place, he abused him very badly, and then fell to and kicked and abused the workshop door also. He broke the windows with this hammer (holding up a large tinker's hammer). He is a regular travelling tinker by trade. Mr. Davis wanted 19s. for having his window tinkered.—The prisoner, with a broad grin on his face, said be was very drunk at the time, and he could notslink of paying any such thing.— The magistrate said he must pay the 19s. damage, or be com mitted for one month. MISCONDUCT OF A WATCHMAN. —Margaret Stephens ap peared to lay a complaint against Patrick M'Quan, for vio lently assaulting her and illusing her. On last Saturday night, her brother, who keeps a butcher's shop, in Great Homer-street, was up very late. She was standing at the door looking for her sister, who had gone out, when Patrick M'Quan came up very much in liquor, and chucked her tinder the chin. She told him he was mistaken, he must go higher up the street, and ran into the house. He then ran after her, and struck her with his stick. Her brother, who was in the house smoking his pipe, came to see what was the matter, and the watchman then threatened to take him to Bridewell and seized hold of him. She then tried to save her brother, and the watchman knocked her down and cut her temple, and she bad to send for a doctor. A surgeon's certificate was here put in, which certified that the watchman was drunk, and that complainant had been seri ously injured. The brother corroborated this statement. The watchman said that the neighbourhood was very disor derly, and heariftg people talking he had entered the house, when two women came out with tongues and poker, and began beating him with the poker, and belabouring hint with their other instruments, and he had used his stick- in self defence. He had been severely cut on the head with a poker. He had been obliged to spring his rattle for assistance. Mr. Parlour said the complainants were not disorderly per sons, but respectable people. The defendant called two watchmen who had come to his assistance, who both stated that they had not seen the coin meneenaent of the disturbance, and that when they came up defendant . was bleeding from a cut on the head, and that the complainant was laid with her head on another woman's knee, bleeding profusely from a wound in her temple, and that the defendant had had liquor. Captain Jones, of the watch, said he had never had to corn complain of the watchman before; he had seen him about three quarters of an hour before the row occurred, and he was sober then. The magistrate said he should always afford the watchmen protection whilst ,doing their duty; but at the same time he should' take care 'that they did not improperly interfere with people. The defendant's conduct in this case had been most unjustifiable. He had severely injured a delicate female, and might have caused her death. The surgeon reported that she has received a very severe injury. Had he been sober he would have abstained from striking the complainant twice, as he had done in a very brutal manner. He should order him to find bail to appear at the sessions to answer the charge. It would give bins an opportunity of doing what was right to the complainant. He might depend upon it that if he did appear he would he very severely punished. IMPORTANT To Paweenoitees.—Mr. Geo. Bradgate, pawn broker, was summoned on an information by Mrs. Mary Hindle for having, on the 2Uth January last, given her an illegal pawn ticket. She had since applied for the goods pawned, and hail been unable to obtain them. She then summoned tho pawn broker; but the magistrate was unable to read the pawuticket as describing the goods she had pawned, and this was a second information for not having the goods legibly written on the ticket. Mrs. Hindle deposed to pledging an apron and sonic other things with the defendant, for which she obtained Is. She afterwards wanted to redeem them, but could not obtain them, and was obliged to summon him; but what she pawned was not then readable on the ticket. She should be satisfied if she could get her things again. The defendant said it was a mere informality, it was a thing which was practised every day. The magistrate was very sorry to hear it. The pawn brokers were obliged by the section of the act to give a full description of the goods pawned, the sum of money advanced thereon, the day of the mouth, and the year when, pledged,-the name of the party Ele4g,4, and also wfretheYhe'or she was a housekeeper ,or . a'lodger. the magistrate said he was deter mined whenever he found pawnbrokers violating the law, and especially if the individual who had pawned the article were poor or ignorant, to afford to such person every protection in his power. He should order him to return the goods( (which Mr. Bradshaw then ) dto pay the costs, and as they were satisfied, he should abstain from ialicting the penalty. • WEDNESDAY. (Before THOMAS JAMES HALL, Esq., the Magistrate.) ROBBERY.—S.imueI Swainson, who had formerly been a ser vant with Mr. Watson, of Lord-street, was brought up charged with stealing a carpet bag that morniug . from the shop. A boy in the employment of Mr. Watson, said he was cleaning the brass _in the 15ont of the window, when the prisoner came up, and;whirstlie Warstoroping,'down, the prisouer„seized a carpet bag and walked off with it. He suspected that he firitriaViti . something and had it under his apron, and followed him, and found a carpet bag concealed under his apron. He then gave him into custody. He had, it appeared, been several times before in custody on similar charges. He was committed to Kirkdale to hard labour for three calendar mouths. • THURSDAY. (Before THONIAS JAMES HALL, Esq.) CRUELTY TO A HORSE. —Yesterday, Thomas Linnekar, the driver of a timber waggon, the property of Mr. Peter Richard son, was brought before T. J. 'lan, Esq., charged with wilfully abusing it , horse attached to a timber carriage, cony Tuesday last, in, ! Souni John-street. It appeared that the riage was very heavily laden, there being upwards of two hundred and forty feet of` solid timber upon it, which was so placed as to cause the shaft horse. to be literally lifted off the ground at every other step. The driver said it was impossible to place the timber in such a petition as that it should not cause the injury to the wheel-horse complained of. The magistrate said Linnekar was not so much to blame as his employer, who, he supposed, ordered the carriage to be so much overloaded.* He should, therefore, order the defendant to be discharged upon paying the cost of the summons. DRINKING DURING THE HOURS OF DIVINE SERVICE.—EIi zabeth Kenworthy, who keeps a public-house in 'Waterloo road, was fined forty shillings and costs for allowing a number of persons to be drinking in her house during the hours of divine service last Sunday morning. CAUTION TO CAR DRIVERS.—WiIIiam Goodall, the driver of Thomas Wainwright's car, No. 10, and William Walker, the driver of the same p erson ' s car, N o. 13, were each fined three shillings and cost for allowing persons to ride upon the dickey of their cars, on Monday evening, contrary to the act. —A similar charge was preferred against the driver of Win. Gardner's car, No. 14, but was withdrawn in consequence of the individual riding on the box being merely a stable-boy, who was requested to accompany the driver by the person who had hired the car.—Birtles, one of the drivers of Coxon's cars, was fined five shillings for "misbehaving" himself at the door of the Town-hall on Monday evening. INFORMATIONS—ST. JOHN'S MARKET.—Mary Horton and Jane Webster, occupiers of butchers shops in St. John's Mar ket, were severally fined the sum of five shillings and costs, for leaving fires in their stalls on Monday evening.—Joseph Pacey, another stall occupier, was fined ten shillings and costs, and five shillings extra, for not answering to the summons, for a similar offence. —Ann Handy was fined 2s. lid. and costs for allowing her dog to lie near her stall in the same market. COMPLAINT AGAINST A WATCHMAN.—Frances Hanlin, who keeps a "house" in Harrington-street, laid a complaint against Ilogan, a watchman, for breaking into her dwelling and ill treating her on Saturday evening last, and for insulting her at various times previously in the streets. On the night men tioned Hogan forced his way into the parlour, and, after over turning the chairs and tables , took a tea-caddy and emptied a quantity of tea which it contained upon the floor. H e insisted on searching her, and upon her offering resistance, he thrust his arms into her bosom, and took other liberties with her. Hogan said he went to the complainant's house on Saturday evening at the request of a gentleman to search for sona, money which he had been robbed of in the house, where he found Mrs. Hanlin and some men drinking, who abused him in a very indecent manner. He denied having used any other means than he was in duty bound to do, to attempt to recover, the gentleman's property. The magistrate said it was evident the woman had been unfairly used, and reprimanded the watch man for his treatment. If she was .suspected of having any thing in her possession which did not belong to her, it was Hogan's duty to take her to the watch-house, where she might be searched by a female, and not to take that duty upon him_ self. After a further reprimand from Mr. Hall, the defendan, was discharged upon promising not to annoy the comply nen' in future. perty. He had left the vessel for a short time, and as he was coming back a seaman asked him if he belonged to that brig, pointing to his vessel ; that a man whom he showed to him had stolen two empty casks and some rope from it. He immediately went up to the prisoner, who was standing beside the casks and rope;. and seized him; but the prisoner being stronger than him, threw him down and made his escape: He was afterwardslaketi into custody by the police with the rope in'his possession.' Mr. Robinson said the prisoner was a rogue and vagabond, and that that was the eighth time he had been brought there.—He was sent to the treadmill for two months. WEDNESDAY. 0: (Before Sir DRINKWATER.) CHARGE OF ROBBERY BY A HACKNEY-COACHMAN.—WiIIiRM Thorner was brought up charged with robbing William Daw, a sailor, whilst in his coach the night before, the complainant being drunk at, the time. Complainant said he had been placed in charge of the coachman by the landlady of an inn he had been drinking at to take home; he was intoxicated at the time, but remembered his money being given to him, wrapped up by the landlady, when he got into the coach. A woman here stepped forward who said she lived with the complainant. She said she knew he bad the money on his person when he entered the coach, and on his getting out of the coach she found he had not got it. She then charged the coachman with getting it from him, and wanted to search him. He refused it at first, but she afterwards searched him. She took out of one of his breeches pockets 2 sovs., and 18s. out of the other. She then took a light and looked into the bottom of the car and found a soy. and Is. in the hay. She then sent for a policeman and gave the man into custody. He did not wish to be detained, and offered to give the two sovereigns not to be detained. Mr. Robinson said the prisoner had offejed that morning to make the difference up to the complainant if they would let him off. He asked him where he would get it, and he then pulled off his waistcoat and there appaared to be some coin sewed in the back which he thought was sovereigns; there were six. The policeman into whose custody the prisoner had been given in charge said he had made inquiry and found that the complainant had been at a Mrs. - Eyres's, who keeps an alehouse. Mrs. Eyres said that in the presence of a gentleman named Hughes she wrapped up complaina \ nt's money, put it in his pocket, and then gave him into the care of the coachman ; she wrapped up 8 sovs. in gold and 9s. 2d. in paper. The complainant was very drunk at the time. In answer to a question from the magistrate the prisoner said he carried so much 'money about him because he durst not leave it at his lodgings. The policeman said he had offered to make up the sum if he would let him go. The complainant said he had been paid 9 sovs. in gold and 9s. or 10s. in silver by Mr. Stewart the day before, as his wages. Mr. Robinson said the 6 sovs. in the prisoner's waistcoat, with the two in his pocket, and the one in the bottom of the coach just made up the amount lost. The prisoner said the coach was his own; that he had been ordered to drive the complainant up to Mr. Cockburn's public-house in Stanhope-street, but that they would not admit him. He had afterwards driven him to several places but they Would not take him in. He was quite drunk.—The case was remanded till next day in order that all the witnesses might be produced. THURSDAY. (Before Sir GEoRGE DRINKWATEP..) To-day William Thorner was again brought up. It appeared from the statement of Mrs. Eyres, that the complainant had entered her public-house in Gloucester-street in company with a man entirely a stranger to him, with whom he remained for some time; what transpired during the time complainant could not remember. The man left complainant a few minutes before he called the prisoner to convey him to Cotter-court, where he was desirous to be taken. Mrs. Eyres positively stated, how ever, that he had the money which he had lost in his possession upon entering the coach. The prisoner said that one or two .men got into the car on their way from Gloucester-street, in order to try if they could recognise complainant, which they could not do. The landlady, at whose house they ultimately arrived, said both the complainant and the prisoner were in a state of intoxication, and incapable of taking care of them selves. Upon being charged with the robbery, he said he had no objections to give up the whole of the money he had to the complainant, excepting a few shillings with whicli he wanted to purchase hay for his horses, because be thought it wrong that be should lose his money while in his (prisoner's) coach. Several witnesses having spoken to the prisoner's general good character for honesty, Sir George Drinkwater ordered h►m to be discharged, and the money found upon his person to be re turned to him. DEATH OF THE MOTHER OF NAPOLEON BON'APARTE. Rosit, Madaine Marie Letitia Bonapai-t, Modle:f of Napoleon, died at one o'clock this morning. She was born at Ajaccio on the 24th of August, 1750. She belonged to 014 Ra►nalini family, and has resided here ever since 1814. Hav: , ink been deprived of her sight. and being confined to lire bed for many years; she shared but-little iti•tkie alfairS tlf this world ; and received but a small number of intimate friends: her the ther-in-laW, Cardinal Fesch, used to Wile and see her every day; and he never left her bedside during her last Moments. Since the death of Napoleon that lady, who had beheld the ac cession of all her sons to the throne, had received only moot n ful tidings from her family. The last blow iha.t struck her, the death of the Princess of Montford, greatly affected her. Fct women mentioned in history have been so much as Marlatri4 Ltetitia favoured with all the gifts' of fortune, and nfterwardti doomed to inhale to the last drop of the cup of adverdity. It was scarcely known iu public that she was worse in health than usu.' , ally, and, as the news of her death had already been spread veral Limes, it was not believed to have takeh place. All that 1 know of her last moments is that she did not lose her plesonCe of mind, and that she left this world with calmness. and trail.; quility.—From the Private Correspondence of the Itheysburgh Ga sette. RUSSIAN LADIES.—The ladies eat and sleep so much tha they very early grow out of all' shape and proportion ' and amongst them, of course, this excessive corpulency is thought particularly charming. The common people, on seeing such a figure waddling along, generally exclaim, in admiration, "How thick and beautiful she is !" They are almost smeared and be daubed with paint, even among the peasantry; and among the: rich merchants' wives, jet black teeth are still esteemed a. par ticular beauty. —( E.itracted from a publication called the " Volume of the Affectioni, or Bridal Offering," just, published .by Sherwood: .Piper, and Co.) A Russian writer has recently published a view of all known languages and their dialects; according to which there .are 937 Asiatic, 587 European, 226 African, and 1264 Ainerican languages and dialects. NEw BATCH OP BARONETS. — It is understood that the rot=, lowing gentleman are to be raised to the dignity of Baronets of the United Kingdom, namely—Sir Frederick Adair Roe, Colin Mackenzie, Esq., of Kilcoy, Ross-shire, Donald Campbell. El., of Dunstaffnage, Argylshiro, and R. W. Newman, Esq.; of Mamhead, Devonshire.—Observer. AN IRISH Balta.- 7 'nm brief :Ay. O'Connell's case foi the Dublin Election Committee, which is to he sent to London, consists of 2> reams of paper—Only 11,003 sheets! !--Dublin Post. CONVICTION OF TWO TOWN COUNCILLORS OF 'WIC AN. • On Wednesday last, Messrs. George and Richard Tennant, millers and maltsters. of Wigan, were convicted in two haring; of £25 and £5O for a violation of the excise lairs in haring' more barley under process than they accounted for to the excise. • THE LATE Ms. Bitti,-,Reference was inade.in Tuesday's Morning Herald to the bad writing of th, late eminent King's Counsel John - Bell. In reference to it he used facetiously to say, when asked 'tort 6f a hand 110 thought he txally wrote, that he had threci sorts —one, that he himself eduld read— one ; that his clerk could read—and one that neither he nor his clerk could read. It eertainlv was most extraordinary .writinz—'-only paralleled by the late Dr. Parr's hieroglyphics: Air. Bell ra• tired many years a4to from the Chancery Ba 4 but he lent his aid to the t hancery Law Commissioners. RAILROAD BETWEEN P4ais AND VERSA ILI.ES.—The CORl mittee appointed to examine into the various plans, which have • been submitted in reference to thisundertaking, are prost.cuting • their labours with great activity, and it is supposed that the rail way will be commenced very shortly. SIR JOHN'DUDLET CAMPLIELL.—the following jeux d' esprit are in circulation:—" Why is Sir John Campbell like a Jew ?" " Because he has swallowed the pass-over.' Atiagriin on -the title Stratheden, is " the rat's-end." CURIOUS MEMORANDA, EXTRACTED FROM THE " F(EURS;:i ANGLIA" OR RYMER. Vol. 1, fol. I.l6.)—Wilfred, a Northum . brim -- Bishop, anno 709, first used siteer plate.Organx we're first brought from the Greek empire into the west, anno Musical notes, as at present used, were invented by• Guido .A).;•- tino, anno 1070.—Glass windows began to be used in England, anno 1181; halt had them first, France next, from thence England.—The ciail 3 , expenses of the Bishop•of St. Andtewri and his servants (confined in Winchester Castle, for espousing the cause of Robert Bruce), anno 1306: For the Bishop's own daily expense vi pence. One man servant to attend iii pence. One boy to attend likewise. iL pence. A chaplain daily .. 1 2 pence. • Total .. 1 shilling. Under the year 1422, in Sir Itobert Cotton's Records, among the inventory of Henry.'s jewels, arms, tapestry, apparel. and goods, it says, " . 'You shall fynd playne gownes of that kynd of less value than 41) shilings, and such other costlte ap parell as the worst pages of the least gentlemen of these daicti would scorne to weare." - • Heuningsen, in his account of the campaign with Zamala.; carreguy, mentions that the Carlist chief Gayala's two daugli ters have been taken prisoners by the Christinos, were drag. ged about by the latter and always put forward in the front, in every encounter, by the garrison of Bilboa, which •hatl daily skirmishes with Zavala. Afraid of shooting_h is...owtrebildreti. he prohibits the Carlists from retstrninyln enemy's firs, and was consequently, obliged to retreat with precipitation. His sense of duty, stung as he-was by the reproaches of bi party, at length overcame his parental feelings, and therefore the next titne... the enemy advanced, bringing forward, as usual ; his daughters, he with tears in his eyes °Meted his partisans to fire. They instantly rushed in with their bayonets, when Zavala was fortunate enough to recover his children unhurt. They had, 'itowever, a narrow escape, two of those' who held them being . killed by the first discharge. The queen's troops were persed and routed. _ _ Last week Sir Robert Graham. ex-Baron of the C'nue't Of Lx. chequer, who is now in his eighty-seventh year, but hale aniU hearty, and in full enjoyment of all his facilities, twit: the °atilt in the Court of King's Bench before Lord Denman, requited by th 4 Act lately passed, empOweriiigTetired juwies to absist in trying prisoners at the Central Court of the Old' Bailey. LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAy.---7.4bout two miles and a half of this splendid undertaking are now coMpletek and st train of seven of the company's carriages are making'experi.; mental trips ten times each way daily, starting frour the Sp.'. road, Bermondsey, and ending at Deptford, whit•hls perforii;ea - in six.minutes. - • THE lONIAN ISLANDs.--I.etteiVrfoth- Tarr10n. , ..6+.4,6 9th; state that the English•govetninenr having resolved on leY‘ing a • new tax on the people of the lonian (statutes, and n i, committing the guard of the strong places tot he nationai troupe, 7 .. the Councit-General had entered an energetic protest against that fletertnination. The government was compelled to yield to the complaints of that assembly, and the people had rent a • deputation to London to congratulate the King on having re ,, linquished those projects. The following statement will show how the nay.gattotVof the Sound has decreased train year to year. The number of ships that passed in the last five years was— S h ipa. .In 1831 .. • 12,914 1832 1833 10,985 , -. • • • 1834 10,605 • 1835 10,';255 •• - - The most remarkable is the decrease of English ships passing in through the Sound, which has declined these five years froni 40 . 72 to 2,472. Tn JEWS.—" Talk what you hill of the Jews," save Selden; " that they are cursed—they thrive wherever they come ; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending hiui money; none of them beg; they keep together; and, for their being hated, my life for yours Christians hate one another as much." Until the reign of Henry II:, a spot of ground near Redcross-street is the only place in all England , wherein they were allowed to bury their dead. IRISH CLERGY.—A meeting of the cominittce for tho relief of the distressed Irish clergy was held on Wednesday, at which an additional £20 4 000 was directed to be remitted to the Arch bishop of Armagh. The receipts reported up to that day were L109,-100. A geologist will tell you there is nothing in the:-arid so _n teresting„ so engrossing, so captivating, as perambulating a dud and miserable country, chipping off bits of rock, and scooping out lumps of clay. 'He sees no beauty in Richmond Hill; his only delight is in discovering and telling you of what it is coin , posed. The finest mountain in the world has no charm for hic eye in the mass. No ; to be agreeable to him he must go and knock a little bit of it off, and wrap up that little bit of dirt in a little bit of paper, carry it to Somerset House, and .there Jake another little bit of paper, and write a history of Gurney. WOLVES.—A remarkably great number of wolves have•made their appearance in Sweden, even in Stoekbohn itself, where one was lately found dead, and partly eaten by its companions. This is looked upon as a proof of the extraordinary severity of the winter. • • EMBOSSED BIBLES FOR THE BLIND."--A public meeting. Was held in the theatre of the Philosophical Institution, Park-street, for the purpose of forming a society for embossing Bibles forth blind. A report, detailing the progress made in the - system was then read, and•subsequently it was.resolved, that a society be now formed, to he called the Bristol Society for Embossing and Distributing the Bible among the Blind, and a committee Was named for carrying these objects into effect.— Biistol itifer cury. • THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL—Of the original representatiVes of the c'haratAers in Sheridan's chef el'atavre, the "SchnOt far Scandal," and of his very witty burlesque, the "Critic," but_' two •surVite. In the former the widow o f the late John Vhilip , Kemble, then Miss Hopkins, first played Maria; and in the, -. latter the partof Don Ferolo Whiskerandos was originally sus- tained by Mr. Bannister, jun., (familiarly called Jack'Batini;i ., ter,) who, save some occasional visitations of his old enemy the gout, cheerfully enjoys in his 76th - year a good old age, and, to - the no small gratification of his friends. " fights his battles o'er again" with surprising vivacity and vignur.- 7 -11firror. RUFFS AND RADIERS.—" He," says Stowe, "was held the greatest gallant that hadde the deepest ruffe and the longest ~ rapier; ,at length her Majestic . did make proclamation against them both, and placed 'several grave citizens at everte gate :to . cut the rules anal breake the rapiers points of all passengers that exceeded - a yeard in length of their rapiers." This regulation occasioned a whimsical circumstance, related by Lord Talbot, in a letter to the Earl of ShrewSbury,'dated June '23;.1811:-- "The Frenche Ambassadour, M. Mousieur (Malvoisier) ridittge to take the ayer, in his rcturue cam throwe Sinythield; -- s•iid ther, at the Barrs, was steyed by those officers that rittethre:eat stioords, by reson his raper was longer than the statute. 11v:was • iti a greate feaurie, and drew his raper—in the meape sea_te)trt my Lard Henrie Seamore came, and so stayed the Matt.er.li Majestic is greadie offended with the officers, in that the} wanted judgmente. ' • -is. ~, ...-Porson had PORSoN'S HABITS OF MEMORY AND Y;RI . 4., ;; - : , aria his ;fondness two peculiarities—his extraordinary rise r mo i c.e..,,h e attributsici in for the manual labour of writing. a great measure to the latter. He -a°r/riend that he •reetd lected nothing which he had not ( ribed three times 'ot : read "nee that any one who Would 1, 1 1 ' ( ( e l . at least six times; adding the assurance the same pow . ers. • .iii take the same trouble would acquire , , , .., 5 f rininetic without the nse of boo‘ .. father taught him the rules 0 , v a was such that at nin e v ,,,,,‘. , 4 ,' or pencil; and his p r eficienc. • ble to - witra-t age he is said to . h ave been < 1 • - cube -riots; in his as indiscriminate as •t, • . head. His memory ryas s names of na im ) ,t 1 was retentive and capreions. Prober. id recall as l °. auCe, fot4ish led dads and tales, he eon .. easily, and repeat era am+- , the passages of ancient authors which he requisid for ratelv, as the illustra tion or cur rtiou of a l in e ) - P..uri • ~,,. i f .ptdes . , be tested to • recite, an d was equallyec i. , r a. y to tepeat " j ac k the ,Ciant killer," b or half a 00k. us of Milton, to his wearied comeativ.— . Ga u ery at Portraits. recen tly discovered in an ancientinan,sion in Y orkshis4..which .. A portrait of Queen Elizab e th; at the age of seventeen, crag . „ . was erected in the early pr.rt. other reigus , It is tilltighlv-finished and most characteristi c lik eness o f t h at ce l e b ra t e d - wo . inau, and exhibits her und er . far more favonrAlekircumstancea iff faetiite and expression th an any likeness of,her that is - known to i:sis-t,l .Sir Humphrey D avy r el ates o f L a Pl ace , th a t he was so ex ceedingly proud of his orders that ha had the star .of the Ottlitt of Reunion taxed to his dressing-gown. . tants t What is this but self -election again, which they have been condemning for years ? On these grounds we deprecate the compromise which has been entered into: If this inundation of councillors be submitted to, we may rely upon it they will possess the greatest share of power, and in proportion to that share will they bring the trust, as they have already done the corporation, into disgrace, involve it in difficulties, job away its offices, and injure its credit. - LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. We have received to-day a file of Barbados papers, which notice the arrival there of H M.S. Racehorse, from Para, having on board the only survivor of the brig Clio, of Liverpool, which vessel it will be remembered was seized by the Indians near Para, and the captain and all the crew, with the exception of one, murdered. The narrative of this man, whose name is Alexander Paton, is of considerable interest. It confirms the previous accounts of the captain having been enticed on shore under the plea of obtaining a pilot, and that after a detention of a day or two, a party of Indians with muskets conducted the captain, Paton, and another seaman named Lloyds, who had accompanied the captain on shore, to the beach under pretence of putting them on board the brig, and when there attempted to shoot them, but the muskets missed fire. Paton and Lloyds fled to the woods, but Captain Reed, in attempting to fly, was wounded by a sword and murdered by three Indians, who at once attacked him. After great hardships Paton reached Cintra, but Lloyds was drowned in crossing a large river. It subsequently transpired that all the crew left on board were butchered by the Indians, with the exception of one, who jumped overboard and was drowned. On the 6th December Paton reached H.M.S. Racehorse. The state of Para and its vicinity is most deplorable according to these advices. We have two West India mails in to-day, but the Opossum packet, which sailed from St. Thomas on the 22d ult., and has had a remarkably fine passage, has brought no mail from Ja maica, the steam-boat not having arrived at St. Thomas when the packet left that port. In the Consul Market there has been a considerable degree of buoyancy during the last few days. The quotation for the Account is at 911 ; Exchequer Bills are at 18 to 23 ; and the India Bonds are at 3 to 5 prem. In the Foreign Market the alteration is not material, nor is the speculation of any great extent. Spanish Bonds are 47148, and New Passive Stock is 151. All the republican bonds are within a fraction of the last prices. Chilian Bonds are 491 50 ; Columbian Bonds are 321 3 ; and Mexican 361 37. In the northern bonds the market is firm, and Russian are at I 1 ; Dutch 5 per Cents. are at 103%; and Belgian 103. In other bonds there is nothing to notice of importance. A perfect mania continues in the Share Market, and there was an almost general advance. London and Birmingham are 124 per share, Gravesend are at 1 pm., Greenwich at 91, Preston and Wyre are at 5 pm., Great Western are 32 per share, South ampton 241 per share, and Liverpool quarter shares are 61. THE HIBERNIA PACKET-SHIP. The following letter has been addressed to the Dock master of the Prince's Dock:— " River Inspector's Office, Feb. 17, 1836. " My dear Sir,—Amidst the various reports that are current respecting the Hibernia. I have heard praise ascribed to all others but you. As I consider, however, that the present exist ence of the vessel is owing to the measures you adopted, I heg you will allow me to say so. Had I held your responsibility at the time, I should have acted in every respect as you did. You did nothing hastily, and were long prepared to scuttle the ship before you gave the order to do so. I have been frequently on board the Hibernia since, and, having closely examined the extent of the fire, feel persuaded that the whole vessel would soon have been in flames but for the judicious course you pur sued. It must be obvious to all that, had the turpentine caught fire, not only would the ship have been totally destroyed. but the safety of the whole shipping in Prince's Doch would have been endangered. " Without wishing in the slightest degree to detract from the exertions of any other functionaries on the spot, I beg to repeat that I consider the greatest praise is due to you. " The responsibility rested with you, and with you alone, to scuttle the ship. I beg to offer this testimony unsolicited, and would have done so before but that I wished to see the various reports in the weekly papers. —l am, my dear sir, your most obedient servant, " J. C. P. WALKER, L.R.N., Inspector of the River. " To —. Hodgson, Esq. , Dock Master. ' COURT OF REQUESTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST4NDARD. Sta.--On Monday se'nnight I attended this court for 'the purpose of explaining to the commissioners a case upon which I had been consulted, and which involved some difficulty, when. I was pleased to find that three of our newly-elected common councilmen, Messrs. Smith, Thornhill, and - Harvey, were on the bench, along with the other commissioners who had been summoned from the inhabitants of the town, and thought that, with the aid and talent of a portion of our common council men, matters of importance (of which the case I appeared upon was one) would be more maturely and properly investi gated than heretofore, when, lo! to my great astonishment, on opening the case to the commissioners, I was prevented pro ceeding by an opinion which was given by one of them, ( - Mr. Thornhill,) that, as I was an attorney, could not be heard there. A short consultation tooli'phiee amongst the-commis: sinners, after which one of the clerks of the court (Mr. Statham) was appealed to, who confirmed—though I say wrongly—Mr. Thornhill's opinion, and I was obliged to desist from proceeding further in the matter. Now, sir, I could - wish to know upon w hat authority either the commisioners or clerk s of the court have .a right tP, Premit, any one, whether an attorney of not, from appear mu tnere and advocating the cause of another person. The act 70 : Anrtiament under which the court is established gives na..ifto L. P4o9lcitYl and I am disposed to think that no other reason VOA `")-/ 401 P e ' in appearsat ti fieo n to o f s m u e eh th a a p t os t i h t e io p n o . w cationc o o f court e tare,ou being r s t u , ffitnhicaai made n es u t and un leoxhrptoeponessiittohinoantor,sfwi alreadynt b i libe e , v . ri je event -of aakaPr'7, "i:,•,,, e ill the ~lutisuActiOti toit as will insure to the inhabitants of this town what is OstrAble, justice. —Yours, &c., ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—Mr. Armisteat the Troprietor of, this theatre, takes his benefit on Monday evening,. '1 he pieces advertised bespeak great anxiety on his part to provide an ample fund of amusement for the gratification of his friends. ST. LUKE'S CHURCH. —The finance committee at theittneet ing on Friday last empowered the churchwarden, Mr. Henry Lawrence, to lower the rents of the pews in this church as he shall think fit, accordi n g to a graduated scale, so that the hold erso f theworst same pews in rent the as church thoseho shallld holding pews I on ger n b e the called upon nto paythe best i a ff n e g r e e r uc i e n uf L up iv i e u r iu p n ool w , h ly c h h o ap sh p o e u a l r d s s ituations. -- g A reat st d r chancel3UßL t t u c not C c o e c t x h s ie . to exist among our 'clocks as to the precise moment of time when they should declare that one hour has passed away and another has commenced, would be inclined to imagine that they were not on the most friendly terms, or that each clock claimed the right of being the independent oracle of its ware or district. For example;—the Town-hall clock to prove, we shppose, that it has "no connexion with the church," takes the lead of St. George's by some eight or ten minutes, while the illuminated Horologe of that sacred edifice,—this being the church which the civic dignitaries, who happen to be churchmen, usually attend,—perhaps to curry favour with the corporation, contrives to keep some five or ten minutes a-head of St. Peter's. What ever may be the cause of the quarrel, it would be a great con venience to the town if the public clocks would hold aprivate public-meeting at the Clarendon Room s, and settle their differ ences, or agree to refer them to some skilful arbitrator. FIRE ON BOARD THE RIBBLE, STRAMER.—On Saturday last, early in the morning, the Ribble, steamer, belonging to the Woodside establishment, caught ,fire by some Means not let accounted for. Happily she was near the slip on the Cheshire side, and prompt measures were resorted to by scuttling the vessel, and the flames were thereby subdued. She is, we un derstand, seriously injured by this untoward event. On Tuesday evening last during the heavy gale, which con tinued to blow during the whole of the night, the Southerner, a large American vessel, ran foul of the North Pier, and car ried away the lamp, whilst the shock carried away her bowsprit and seriously damaged the vessel. Towards morning she grounded near Clarence Dock, but was got off with the tide. SUPPING OfPLATE.—Ann Marshall, a sailor's beauty, who perambulates the classic ground of Tithebarn-street. when the witching hour draws near, sighing forth her tenderness to each listening tar, whom her beauty, as seen by the distant flickering of a gas lamp, might enslave, was brought up at the Police- office, on Monday last, charged by Graham, the watch,' with having, without leave, supped most exp ensesivel y the night be fore. Whilst going his round, he observed the lady rather un ceremoniously thrust her hand into her masculine neighbour's breeches pocket, from which she abstracted, according to the statement of the loser, 3s. 6d.— The Magistrate (to the watch.) Did you see it?—Watchman.—No, sir; but I believe she had it in her mouth, and when I tried to get it out, 1 believe she swallowed it.—(Langhter.)—ln answer to a question from the magistrate, it appeared that the lady was in the habit of taking her evening promenade seven times in the week in Tithe barn-street, and that she gave the watch considerable trouble. She Nlas committed for 14 days to Kirkdale. - - INFORMATIONS. —Stephen Murphy was on Tuesday last sum moned on an information, before Th - omas James Hall, Esq., by the market inspector, charging him with exposing for sale on Saturday last, in St. John's Market, 105 lbs. of pork unfit for food. The pork was measled. The magistrate said in all such cases he should inflict the full penalty. He must pay a fine of 20s. and 3s. 6d. costs.—Robert Miller, the owner of car N 0.152, was summoned on an information by Martindale for allowing his car to ply for hire in Scotland-place without its being in proper repair. The hinges were off the door. The defendant had often been fined before. He was fined ss. and costs. IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—On Tuesday night, as a gentleman was returning home towards Upper Newington, between six and seven o'clock, five or six well dressed young men surrounded him, got hold of his bands, pretending to recognise an old ac quaintance, and whilst one or two of them were shaking him by the hands, crying, " How do you do, Mr. Thompson?" another put his hand over the gentleman's' mouth, whilst a fourth pulled his watch out, and a fifth emptied his breeches pocket. They then immediately all made off. The robbery was committed so instantaneously and in such a daring manner, that the gentle man hardly knew what they were about before they were off. Public notice has been given to all the pawnbrokers, and it is hoped the watch may be found. It was a patent lever silver watch, Joseph Johnson, maker, and No. 722. Ten or twelve shillings were taken from his pocket. CONVICTIONS UNDER THE FACTORY ACT. —From the Ist of June to the 31st December, 1835, there have been inflicted for violation of the above act penalties to the following amount 7- West Riding, Yorkshire £27o 0 0 Lancashire 256 12 6 Cheshire .. 128 0 (1 Derbyshire £769 12 6 which sum, after deducting fees of court in a few ea see, has been distributed to different. Sunday and other schools, with the ex ception of about E , lO given to other charities. WARRINGTON PETTY SESSIONS.-FEB. 16. UNSTAMPED NEWSPAPEas.—James Osborne was summoned before the magistrates on several informations charging him with having sold unstampeci newspapers; he pleaded " not guilty" to six of the informations. The charges having been sufficiently proved, he was found guilty and fined in the miti gated penalty of £lO for each information, and on his refusal to pay he was committed to Kirkdale for six months. Mr. Wagstaff, solicitor for the prosecution, informed the magistrates that he had still four other charges against him, which he should withold for the present. The defendant behaved in a most impudent manner before the bench, and stated that if the prosecution could have been delayed a fortnight, there would,be no necessity for prosecuting him, as by that time the law wo be altered in that respect. CONSECRATION OF T E NEW CHURCH AT KNOTTY ASH. . Yesterday Dr. Sumner, the Lord Bishop of Chesteroittended u at Knotty Ash to consecrate this betifullittleclittrch. "The church itselfis,lisaated in the VilNge of Knotty Ash, and pre -skits a very neat and ornamental appearance. It is built in the gothic style, of red stone, and the erection cost upwards of £3,000. It is small but extremely neat, and has au elegant spire. The interior strikes the beholder at once by its extreme neatness. On either side is an isle, and at the west end or bot tom of the church is a gallery, in which is placed a small but excellent-toned organ, built in good keeping with the style of the building. Either side of the roof along each isle is support ed by elegant-fluted stone pillars, which, from their lightness, have a pretty effect. The whole of the pews, &c. are neatly painted oak colour and well fitted up. The communion table was set out with a very handsome service of plate. The whole of the expense of the church was subscribed by ten individuals, 1' and the ground on which it stands was presented by Adam Dug dale, Esq., of Dovecot. There are 625 sittings. J. C. Mollineux, Esq , and James Worral, Esq., of Knotty Ash, are trustees for the building. It is on- the. whole as pretty a little church. as we have seen. A number of the clergy and gentry of the neigh bourhood attended. We noticed the-Rev,--Mr. Mr. Pickard; Rev. Mr. Blacow, Rev. Mr. Gardner, Rev. Mr. Vaudrey, Rev. Mr. Moss, Rev. Mr. Leigh, .Jos. Shaw Leigh, Esq., 2 lames Worral, Esq., and others whose names we did not learn. The solemn ceremony commenced at eleven o'clock by the bishop, followed by the clergy, entering the communion rails. One of the clergy then read the trust deed, after which the bishop, preceded by a mitre, and followed by the whole of the clergy responding after him, slowly walked round the isles of the church repeating the prayer of consecration. The bishop then in a highly impressive manner from within the altar rails repeated the prayer consecrating the church, dedicat ing it to sacred things, and imploring the divine blessing on the ministrations to be offered up under its roof, and that those re ceiving the sacrament in a right spirit within its walls might . receive remission of sins. Ihe usual petition for consecration was then presented at the altar by Mr. Worral, of Knotty Ash, and read at length by one of t he clergy. 'rbe Rev. Mr.-'ruer, the minister of the church, then ascended the reading desk, and read the morning service in a very impressive manner cal culated to give full effect to the beautiful prayers of the Church of England service, and which were listened to with marked attention by the numerous congregation. The bishop then ascended the pulpit, and chose for his text the 4th chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke, and the 18th verse :—" The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he bath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he bath sent me to heal, the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recover ing of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised." From this paasage the bishop wove a most beau tiful discourse. These were the words which our Saviour at the onset of his ministry declared to the assembled people, when, having selected a passage from the prophecy of Isaiah, he said to them, " This day is the scripture fulfilled in your hearing." And he had taken the same words for the present occasion, because it was the business of the ministers of that church to carry on the same spirit which animated Him to do the will of God, that the principles which He preached should he disseminated amongst successive generations of mankind. If they rightly considered the import of this passage, they would rightly understand the object for which this church was raised and dedicated; and the purpose which it was designed to fulfil. The bishop then proceeded to draw some very beautiful deduc tions from the words of our Saviour—" The spirit of the Lord bath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor," " to con vey to the poor the grateful message of glad.tidings and great joy." He then went on to explain the passage following the text—" The spirit of the Lord bath sent me to heal the broken hearted." Towards the conclusion of his discourse the bishop addressed the assembled clergy, pointing out their duties, and to the congregation what they had to expect from their ministry, and the blessings likely to accrue from a due attention to what they . inculcated. Might there be many suc h p roofs of God's blessing on the work which they had undertaken in His name, and in the church which had that day been consecrated to His honour and glory • The congregation, which was highly respectable and numer ous, comprising most of the fashion and beauty of the neigh ' bourhood, then dispersed. - ARRIVAL OF ANOTHER WHALER.—The following is an' ex . - tract of a letter from Hull received on Tuesday :—" You will be glad to hear of the safe arrival of the Abram front the Straits, with 94 men, part of the crews of the wrecked vessels being on board. Serious apprehensions were entertained for her safety, the general opinion prevailing was, that she was lost. Only one man has died amongst the, aged as well as the sickly. They had seen nothing of the other ships; but, from their being near land, the captain supposes they are well off: The Abram had drifted far to the southward." SPIDERS.-111 any anecdotes have been related to prove that spiders are fond of music, and here is another. At a well-known ladies' school at Kensington, an immense kind of spider is common; so large is it indeed, that like the Hampton Court Cardinal mentioned by Mr. Jesse, it is sometimes mistaken for (Before Sir GEORGE DRINKWATER.) a mouse. The young l adies by no means admire these visitors, IN eoemATloNs.—Messrs. John Highfield and Co. were sum- who, when according to the custom of the house they are al mooed on an information charging them with having landed 60 sacks singing a verse or two o f a h y mn or p salm, before morning and of oats on the Clarence Dock Quay, which they had lef t evening prayers, they generally make their appearance on the there for the space of four or five days. They were fined ss. and floor, or suspended overhead from their thick webs on the cell-. co -ts.--Captain Humphreys, of the " Harmony," was summoned ing, obviously, and a tact not to be contradicted, attracted from ot. an information charging him with having left his ship on their hiding.places in the old room by "the harmonious con- Saturday night without any person on board. The fact was cord of sweet s ounds. —Mirror. deposed to by two of the constables, He was fined ss. and The late Admiral Sir H. Blackwood (I believe) happened c osts.—Captain Hein, of the " Bezariel," was summoned to w a all sh o e f e a once, after dinner in London. to relate an accident of a leopard farm-yardwiih him. a t Some o I. answer to an information charging him with having left his Barton vessel in the King's Dock, on Saturday night, without any per- which and sou on board. The captain said he had left the vessel in charge rah, aas regularly nightly carryle ap Backth e his hearers appearing sceptical, the gallant admiral applied to of a young man, who had been taken ill and was obliged to an old Indian officer at table (who knew the fact, from being on go to a doctor : he produced asurgeon's certificate of the young the spot at the time) for corroboration. Imagine his surprise, man's illness. On these grounds the defendant was acquitted. , o n receiving for answer, "My dear sir, 1 have really no recol - CHARGE OF SUGAR STEALING.—WiIIiam Zacchar y: Richard lection whatever of the circumstance." Some few Clays after, Phillips, and George Kelsey mate of the ship "Ann, lying in Sir H., meeting his friend accidentally, demanded of hint how the King's Dock, were brought up charged by Jones, the police- he possibly could have forgotten the occurrence ? ," Admiral," man, with having walked from the dock the night before with a replied the cautious Indian, " I had a perfect recollection of it, bag containing about 601bs. of raw sugar. Suspecting that all but 1 make it a rule in England never to authenticate any w as not ri g ht he had them taken into custody. The prisoners story having for its hero a lion, tiger, or leopard, or in any said they were assisting the captain to carry home some sugar. form connected with hunting in India—no one ever believes you." The captain of the " Ann" appeared, and said one of the pri- —sp or ti ng Magazine. soners was his apprentice, another was acooper, and the third was his mate. He knew nothing about the taigar they were carryinr, h . Smoking in the street, or in a theatre, is only practised by off. Ile had sugar on board his vessel; it was consigned to Lo -boys, pseudo-fashionables, and the " swell mob." • • it. Robert Semple and Co.; he did not know whether be had sugar Never . nod to a lady in the street, neither be satisfied with . on boaid of that description or not. lie had no reason to sus. touching your hat, but take it Qif—st is . a courtesy her sex clo phad a minds. Hin ts o n P • • peel that the mate took it wrongfully. The mate said he ..ints Eti q ue tte. all guinea with which be had bought the sugar, and had laid it . PROFITABLE SPECULATION.—Tbe negro stealer takes -the out in it. The other two men in custody were a cting under his negro to the lower country, sells him for 600 dollars or I,ooy directions in carrying the bag. The case was remanded till dollars cash, then tells the negro to run away and meet hiln,.a ,s t next day to afford time for further iuquiries. On being brought it place appointed, where they divide the money- , IIF takes up the following day the captain did not attend to press the him to another section of the country. and sells him againi.tner charge against the prisoners, and they were discharged. negro runs away and they agaiiv Oivide the s e m o ° v n e e t ?. h e takes STEALING RopE.— Michael M`Donald was brought up having sold the negro in this way sevaratal ti e r: k ibe 'w hole of the. charged by the captain of the" Mary Ann," lying in the King's I him into the woods; murders him. and ' Dock, with having stolen a quantity of rope, which was his pro- money.— Worcester (America) Palladium. DOCK POLICE.-TUESDAY.