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HE ATTACK ON THE QUEEN day night's. London Standard.) Hearn inquiry n. 134 police force under examination , until four everal witnesses was taken ; at prisoner was remanded to Tot .ed to be brought up again for lay next, at twelve o'clock. removed from the Home Office in r Hughes, by the back entrance, and !et in a cab, almost unnoticed by the :ver has transpired as to the nature of afore the Privy Council to-day. A_ division of police, and A the same division, have )1. some time, l e d a question , Iccording to - his own fields at Islington ; roughont the week. thing about the pistol, or opinion of the police that )p. It is a very old pistol, plaid with silver wire, but c assigned for its non-ex- the powder with which it was r a letter, which is an exact A which we give Thinking that you might I write these few I abse n mi that I am seeking employment, which, I will not be dishonest, though I may' be be useless to seek me, as I am determined e again. Please give my love to my bro never used me as such. I have little Ling, remember me to aunt and uncle, and it they have done for me. I should have ler, but I did not like. Hoping you are ribbling, nor think no more of me. I can and obedient son J. BEAN yesterday, directed to " Mr. buildings, Clerkenwell." s letter The post-mark was the s put into the post at Islington. )DITIONAL PARTICULARS • (From the Herald of Wednesday.! ;sterday actively employed in tracing out rid conduct of - the deformed miscreant ueen on Sunday last, and the result of nquiries are said to be of an important ct will rest upon Bean's conversation mouth-street, of whom he bought the ,ntradictory statements have gone forth, part of the case, the reporter subjoins ►unt of the transaction :- 4," says Mr. Bird, " about the matter nw., when his father, whom I have known me, as he passed my shop, that his son or shooting at the Queen. On the same father returned with Itspector Martin, I sold a pistol lately to the prisoner, and his pocket and showing it me I at that 1 sold to young Bean on Tues on pocket pistol, but it would cer nds of any body that knew how to however, that he understood any ood deal of trouble with him after he came to my shop he had some Id he tried the pistol, but I saw he ndle it, and I told him to be cautious f some mischief. He said he wanted e himself, and he paid me, I think, 1r it, but I cannot positively recollect the exact s I am in the habit of selling so many pistols in of a week. The day after he bought the pistol he I said he could not make the fiint strike fire, ed me to put him a new flint into the cock, adding stol in its then state was of no use to him. I ob- I could ee what a parcel of boys wanted with I told him to come on the next day; He went immed on the following day, and renewed his sin, but he returned a third time, e a flint in my pocket I told him I ,e. I saw that the old flint was gone, sad become of it, and be said he had was of no use. I then out the new I put him off ag, 1 what ad I am quite sat and I have not seen en Inspector Martin d that powder this I am quite positive." ted to attend the Privy Council to the above effect will be taken. newsvendor, and the prisoner's tents that the traitor was fond of Oxford, and upon one occasion he said to his v well Oxford is provided for," and on another to his father that he had been reading that [owed a pint of wine per day, and two masters 'rench and English. The truth of these state r' already denied by the governors of Bethlem as exhibited great sullenness of disposition ttal to Westminster Bridewell. He was and treated as other prisoners are upon his iday afternoon, and a turnkey has remained ita day and night. The cell in which he is we as was occupied by Francis and Oxford, rceration therein, be has not once alluded brought against him. UTTAL OF THE PRISONER. e Morning Herald of yesterday.) !moon the further examination 'of the de fohn William Bean, who was remanded on a charfe of having attempted the life of her James s Park, on Sunday last, took place be ouncil and the law officers of the crown, &c., n the minds of the public by the in that displayed on the oecasion of the cides Oxford and Francis, there being ►zen persons collected at the door of rind of the examination. ht from the Tothill-fields bridewell, governor, and one of bis assistants, ut a quarter to one o'clock. lowing noblemen and officers of state rd Chancellor, Earl Liverpool, Duke __ea Peel, Bart., Sir James Graham. leugh, Earl of Ripon, Lord Wharn r, Earl Jersey, Lord Fitzgerald and Sir George Clerk, Bart., Sir H. the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals, Mr. e solicitor to the treasury; and Mr. Hall • the chief magistrate and clerk of Bow- soner was Delawa HAddinv before the Privy Council were, as usual, strictest secrecy. The following parti. ination, howe►er obtained, may be relied was the policeman Webb, G division e night in a cab from the sta -1 to that of the A division in Gar where he was identified by the nd other witnesses, whose evidence has already s the same deformed youth whom they saw pre )l at her Majesty's carriage in St. James's Park e circumstances connected with the on Sunday night, at the residence place, Rosoman-street, particulars of which appeared in this t. He also deposed to assisting; in 4, St. Jag Clerken of the G division, was the next witness the testimony of the policeman Webb, and ter which the prisoner sent to his parelits on evious, g copy of which has appeared. name of Wright, residing in New Tothill n., was next examined, who corroborated red at the first examination, as to the pri ;s in St. James's Park. roker, of No. 26, Exmouth -street, Clerk hop the prisoner purchased the pistol, was called. He deposed to selling the prisoner id., about a fortnight or three weeks ago, nore than once called with it to complain go off, the last time being on Friday last, prisoner a new flint to it, for which he paid 5 witness was closely questioned by differ le council as to his opinion whether or not i at all fired since it had been purchased he answered most positively in the nega- dor, of Penton-street, Pentonville, 3 the conduct of the prisoner while boys, who identified the let le of t as being in the handwri- ses, although in attendance I in, but they were all ordered __reet Police-court on Thursday at half the purpose of signing their depositions in the usual form. a'clock, the examination having been brought to ncil broke up, and it shortly afterwards vital charge had been abandoned, and 7omrnitted for trial for the misdemea able offence, be was told if he could sum of £250 each, to appear at the 1 that t being a bail of calle :ke might be liberated from custody before tt of the mho was in attendance, was not He visited the prisoner in the 'ruing at the Tothill-fields Bridewell, but tr w ould hold no commun i ca ti on w ith hi m , an d I sullenly silent. After he was brought out of the chamber into the waiting-room his father again spoke but to all his questions he received the monosyllabic Df r " No," with the e xception that he sent his love to hp ne was conveyed to Tothill-fields. r to inquiries as to the prisoners conduct in s Bridewell during his stay there, it was stated :trved a sullen silence, and partook but scantily He would not assign to Mr. Lewis, the med f th:: prison, any m ot i ve for attempting to shoot , but said he was " tired o f li fe !' Yesterday ior to his been taken before the Privy Council, again examined him, and found no alteration in ; but he could not but feel convinced of one that the prisoner inwardly rejoiced at r he had made. There are decidedly no syrup aity to be traced in anything done by the prisoner arceration. If OF MR. GEORGE EVANs.—Mr. George 1 years represented the county o f Whig principles, died very sudden his residence, Portrane, n ear man was attacked early in the he was immediately gttended of Melahide, wbo left br. Grad health , out two o'clock, Mr. Evans asked for a Evans a chair s left no issue !states by Mr. Mr: Alderman nother of J.. Marie De, S AGAIN ) p g p e e t ahreerd with again vo. i)a n%V r edne n s: j s 9 Mademoiselle Desjardins u I by the fatigue of the preceding I was remar k a bl e f or hi s qu i et, d ig nified s military carriage. The President sum s. The jury then retired, and after an )n returned, bringing in " not guilty " in on, and " guilty " against Marie Rosalie itting, however, in her favour, extenuating The court. a ccordingly condemned her to ,—prisonment, in which are to merge the four prisonment to which she had been already con- aus or a mi - 2 ourt of A: of forgery EXECUTION OF COOPER, TWO HIGHWAYMAN AND MURDERER. The executi n of Thomas Cooper, for the murder of Timothy Daley, a policeman, at Highbury, took place on Monday morning at the usual place of execution in the Old Bailey. The authorities of the gaol, by the orders of the Sheriffs, refused admission to every stranger who applied. Mr. Sheriff Rogers arrived at the gaol about seven o'clock, and an application was made to him by the reporters to be allowed admittance. He replied, in answer to the applica tion, that in consequence of some errors that bad appeared relative to statements alleged to have been made by Mr. Sheriff Magnay at the last execution, it had been resolved not to allow any reporters to be present on this occasion ; but he said he would go and consult Mr. Magnay upon the subject, and an answer should be sent. He also very politely told the reporters that the Sheriffs did not wish to prevent them from seeing the execution, and at the same time pointed to the Old Bailey, intimating, no doubt, that they might choose a position among the crowd. He then went into the gaol, promising to send an answer, but none arrived before the execution took place, and the reporters then retired, without having had any opportunity of obtaining the facts connected with the execution. 7 -- The following particulars have been obtained from various sources. The culprit had latterly, to a very considerable ex tent, abandoned his former reckless demeanour, and had evi dently been affected by the exhortation of the chaplain ; he also expressed contrition for the offence he had committed, and admitted the justice of his sentence. He slept about three hours on Sunday night. He got up about six o'clock, and shortly afterwards Mr. Carver was admitted to his cell, and remained with him until the hour of execution. The culprit appeared to be very weak ; indeed his legs almost failed him, and it was necessary to support him through the passages of the gaol to the scaffold. Here he appeared some what to rally, and walked up the steps leading to the drop, and the executioner immediately proceeded to perform his duty. The wretched culprit again became very faint, and just as he seemed on the point of falling to the ground the bolt was drawn, and he appeared to die almost instantly. The crowd assembled was very inconsiderable when com pared with those to witness the execution of Good and Blakesley. TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN. REV. GENTLEMEN, --I have had the honour of enclosing in an envelope—addressed to each of you who, I learn from your Directory, are placed at the bead of your respective places of worship in this city—copies of the following peti tion to the Houses of Lords and Commons, which, though it has been printed before, I now reprint, that the Roman Ca tholics of Dublin may know it is placed in your hands, and may again read it with due deliberation : PETITION. TO DEFEND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS, PRIESTS, AND COLLEGE OF MAYNOOTH To the Knights BUrgesses in the Commons' House of Par liament assembled. The Petition of the undersigned Roman Catholics and Liberal Protestants of all denominations. HUMBLY SHOWETH,—That whereas certain. cruel, un founded, and illiberal calumnies and slanders have been and are being circulated among various classes of Protestants, impeaching the Roman Catholic hierarchy and priesthood of Ireland, and especialiy the principles taught in the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, and in the conferences of priests, with the view of procuring petitions to your Honour able House to withdraw the grant of public money from that college That it has been stated that ordinances of idolatry and su perstition, doctrines subversive of the obligation of oaths when the utility of the church requires it, principles inculca ting intolerance and persecution of heretics, invasion of the settlement of property, disloyalty to a Protestant Sovereign, and gross and revolting obscenity to be used with females in confession, form part of the instruction of students trained for the Roman Catholic priesthood in that college. That it has been stated that, after they are ordained priests, similar principles are instilled into them by their bishops in their diocesan conferences, to teach them to direct the con sciences of the people, that the bishops have a certain stan dard for this purpose, to which they have added certain Papal laws, and that these alleged facts are sufficient to account for the crimes and miseries of the Roman Catholic popula tion of Ireland. That petitioners are well convinced that these are the ca lumnies of base and interested individuals, itinerant sowers of discord and disturbers of the public peace, that they have no foundation in fact, that such principles as these are neither inculcated in the class-books and standards on the students of Maynooth, nor subsequently on the priests by their bishops in the standards of their diocesan conferences, that there exists no such wicked code of laws in Ireland, but that the Roman Catholic hierarchy and priests of Ireland are most loyal, moral, upright, chaste, pure, and exemplary men. - Petitioners, therefore, most humbly piay that Your honor able house will be pleased to investigate the class-books and standards of instruction used in the College of Maynooth, and the standards for the diocesan conferences of the Roman Catholic priests, and all the alleged charges : that your honourable house will thus vindicate this excellent institu tion, and the justice of the parliamentary grant to support it ; rescue from calumny this most venerable and loyal class of her Majesty's subjects ; put illiberal slanderers to silence; remove a cause of diccord ; disabuse the minds of the cre dulous; inspire Protestants with confidence and good-will towards their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects ; promote peace and Christian charity in Ireland; and petitioners con fidently expect that your honourable house will see ample cause not only to continue, but to increase your grant to the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth. rilE ( ar. of Da den2ned And petitioners will ever pray, &c Now,.gentlemen, it is unnecessary for me to recapitulate all the epithets which have been bestowed on me for the testi mony which I have borne against that awful system of which you are unhappily both the victims and the administrators, and from which I earnestly hope and pray that God will de liver you and the Roman Catholics of Ireland. You cannot but see that by placing this petition in your hands, so far as in me lies I place the vindication of your class-books, your standards of instruction, your conference books, your archbishop and bishops, and yourselves entirely in your own power. If I have stated at any time anything, either wilfully false or unintentionally erroneous, about them, it is now in your power to impeach my evidence and to prove its false hood or its error before the highest tribunal in the country. If you know it to be false, of course you will be anxious to do so. If you call on your flocks to sign these petitions, or any similar petitions better than these that you please to draw, and if you forward them to Mr. O'Connell to present to the House of Commons, and tir. O'Connell presents them, then the people will see that you are honest and sin cere in all your denunctations of my friends, Dr. O'Sullivan, Mr. M`Neile, and myself; and that you know your books, your college, your conferences, and your confessional, to be good and holy as you profess to be, and that you use your best exertions to vindicate them from the charges made against them. If, on the contrary, instead of call ing on your flocks to sign these, you denounce these petitions, and either publicly or privately endeavour to prevent the Roman Catholics from signing• them. then you admit that all the statements on these subjects are true, and you fully vindicate me from all the imputations of calum ny and falsehood, &c. &c., which have been cast on me by Dr. Murray, by yourselves, and the press. Gentlemen, if this be so, let me solemnly and affectionately warn the Roman Catholics of Ireland, that if it is clear that you are afraid to let your system be exposed before men, it proves yonr own distrust of the very principles you teach them, and is a loud appeal to them—at least to investigate those principles, and to prove them by the word of God, at whose tribunal they shall soon appear. Aod oh ! gentlemen, let me conjure you to lay these things to heart. It is not a question of politics or of party interests, or of the petty temporal concerns of a nation. What matter is it what man may think or say on such a subject—what signifies the opinion of the British parliament ? Sure it is a small thing to a man that is really a servant of God to be judged of man's judgment ; but, oh ! if this system is one that you know in your own consciences cannot bear exposure even to the eyes of man—oh ! consider how must you appear when you are summoned to the bar of Him who will bring that which is spoken in darkness into light—when your immortal souls must stand upon an issue which you dare not encounter, even before your fellow worms. May God enlighten and deliver you and the vast multitudes whom you lead from Christ to refuges that cannot save, is the sincere prayer of your friend and servant in the truth, R. J. WGHEE A copy of the following letter has been forwarded to Lon don, from the Rev. Mr. M•Ghee, addressed to the Lord Mayor of Dublin. It now remains to be seen what course Mr. O'Connell will adopt. If he believe the system of education adopted at Maynooth to be pure and good, as he has so often asserted—if he be conscious that the professors of that establishment can come unscathed through such an inquiry as that sought by the petition—and this he has boasted over and over again must be the case—then his clear course is to support its prayer. If he do not take this course, he gives a practical falsification to all his former statements, and belies his own assertion of his belief in the Maynooth course of education : " TO THE RIGHT HON. DANIEL O'CONNELL, M.P., LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN " My Lord Mayor,—l have the honour of transmitting herewith copies of two petitions, one to be signed by Pro testants, bringinc , certain weighty charges against the college of Maynooth and the Roman Catholic bishops and priests, and praying an investigation by parliament to prove those charges true ; and the other petition, to be signed by Roman Catholics and all liberal Protestants, denying and denouncing the charges in the foregoing petition, and praying an investi gation by parliament to prove them false. " Now, in the last debate, on Mr. Colquhoun's motion, as to Maynooth, I recollect you said you fully believed all that is taught in that college, and it is unnecessary to quote any of your letters or speeches to prove the high estimation in which you hold your bishops and priests. " Now, hereby, shall you be tested before the Roman Ca tholics of Ireland. If you know the statements made in the Protestant petition, on the subject of the College of May nooth, and against your bishops and priests to be true, then you will cushion this letter or you will affect to despise the petition, and when the writer or you will have recourse to some other artifice or finesse to get rid of the subject. But if you believe these statements to be false, if you believe that so far from their being substantiated, the innocence of your bishops, priests, and college would he established by investi gation, then you will take this Protestant petition in your hand into the House of Commons—you will read with indig nation the charges that are in it—you will demand of the house, not as a party question, but as an act of public na tional justice, to grant a committee to investigate these charges, to vindicate these injured men, and, indeed, to jus tify themselves in the grant they made to support this insti tution. Now, I say, my Lord Mayor, this shall prove whe ther you are honest in your professions to the Roman Catho lics of Ireland, or whether you are leagued with your bishops and priests to enslave and oppress them. You shall bear Your part in this, my Lord Mayor. You shall justify, as far as in your lies, these charges by your silence—or else you shall endeavour to disprove them by a bold straight-forward appeal to the nation. This is what I call ' JUSTICE FOR IRELAND.'-1 have the honour to be, my Lord Mayor, a faithful sincere friend to the best interests of the Roman Catholics of Ireland. " R. J. M`GHEE." who has alway n s ea re r s l id sE ed it i; j a am sm es all li c e orta o g o e d , BEATH OF A M , a a t gedBo Chadderton, Butler-green, years died on the 16 of °ldharn, and who was never married, any other trade or May last ; and although he never followed weaver, he ha s left oc cupation than that of a cotton haudloom property to the amount of nearly £2,000. Upwards of £6OO is 1 : o n r money, out at interest, the rest is freehold prop erty . only had one pai r of upwards of 40 y ears p as t h e h a d weeks previous t o clogs,his d and one su i t of clothes. A few ath ' he r equested that his old c logs and clothing b em i g h t with him, which has been do p n ut into his coffin and interred and appointed two old womene. He made his will in 1837, and a man, upwards of 40 years i o 'e f arlY 80 years of age each, has ordered that £2O per annum be age ex as his executors. 11 e and stockings, to be given to childre fromnded in calico, clogs, of the name of Heywood, who 2 to 12 years of age, reside in the Township of Chadderton. One of the old w omen, who is principal executrix. bad resided with himuppo!nted as pri upwards o f 27 years ; she wa s never married, and is to have 3s. p er week and a cottage durin g her life. The rest of th e pro ert ' P yis to be put out to interest for 121 years, and then to be gi • ven to the next heir then alive, and in case there are no relations at that time, the interest of the money is to be expended annually in calico, clogs, and stockings, and to be given to all old maids and bachelors who are upwards of 60 years of age each, and residents in Chadderton. FLEETWOOD COLLEGES A meeting of the provisional committee of the Fleetwood College Association, and of gentlemen interested in the pro jected educational establishments on the principle of life assurance, was held, in the large Assembly Room of the North Euston Hotel, Fleetwood-on-Wyre, on Friday, the Ist instant. The attendance was exceedingly numerous and respectable. The Rev. St. Vincent Beechey, A.M., (incumbent of Fleetwood, and chaplain to Lord Grantley,)was called to the chair, when he called upon Mr. Vantini, who delivered the following address explanatory of the proposed system : I feel certain of your indulgence, particularly when I am about to propose a thing which conscientiously I believe will one day be a great boon to humanity, namely, a means of enabling every one to obtain the best possible education at the least possible cost. Permit me, gentlemen, briefly to relate the manner in which the idea first originated in my mind, and how time and experience have made me to hope that I have not greatly erred in my calculations. In 1835 it struck me that the system of life insurance would be an ex cellent thing, if it could be adapted to education. From that moment to this my mind has always been more or less occu pied on the subject; and, by speaking with talented men, I have found them generally of my opinion, particularly such as had had something to do with dispensing education. It has been clearly ascertained that in a large school where no profit is sought beyond the payment of tuition, a child may be boarded and educated in a first-rate manner for £3O per annum, that is to say £l5 for board, washing, medical attendance, and stationery (but no books), £8 for masters, and £7 for interest on original outlay and risk. Even this sum, however, which can only answer in very large schools where very small profits are expected, often falls too heavily on parents who have many children. But let us suppose an establishment to exist in which the education of children is paid on the principle of life insurance. Now this principle is two-fold. First, it diffuses the expenses of a certain cost over the space of a much greater number of years, thereby diminishing the immediate pressure on any one year, and also the actual weight, because it accumulates at compound interest. Secondly, it applies to the living the benefit of those who die, before they become entitled to any annuity, and consequently before they require it. In order to apply this principle to education, I have had recourse to the calcu lations of the most eminent practical men, all of whom have approved of the principle; and when I mention the names of M. de Morgan, professor of mathematics at the university college in London, and Mr. Coates, the secre tary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, as the authors of that calculation, I hope I am not far out, when I say that by the payment of £4 per annum from the birth of any child intended to be sent to these establishments, or by a proportionate payment at any subsequent age until seven years ; then from the age of seven to that of eighteen, such child may, on a further annual payment of £2O between those years inclusive, have the benefit of a first-rate education, including every accomplishment necessary for the scholar and the gentleman, conducted under the superin tendence of the most eminent masters in the kingdom. The details I will not now enter into, being anxious to reserve them for future deliberation, more especially as some modi fication of this plan must be made in the case of a new es tablishment, in which many of the first pupils shall be al ready of age to enter. The principle of the plan I have looked into most anxiously. Chance having brought me to Fleet wood, I saw all at once that it would be the best spot in England to put in execution my grand object, as many of the difficulties which I thought very great, appeared . re moved • therefore, with delight I embraced the opportunity that offered itself to me ; and in all my arrangements here, having had this object in view, I prepared the ground work for the model colleges, the trial of which I had in my mind to offer to an enlightened public. We shall find ourselves all at once receiving the maximum of our expenses, allowing £25,000 for the entire establishment as before calculated, £5,000 for the payment of the interest of the building, and £3,000 surplus. These sums may be depended upon at the opening of the establishment, together with the certainty of their being immediately and considerably increased by the births and deaths of children. The greatest effort to insure our success in the first instance, you clearly see will be to obtain the registration of 1,000 parents or heads of families, and, as such registration binds them to nothing, if we do not succeed to build our colleges, we hope to obtain, with facility, such registration. As soon as we shall have registered the first 300, we shall regularly organise ourselves; and we have full confidence that when once our organization shall be es tablished, we have a right to expect that by the clear advan tages we are offering to the public, we shall accomplish our object. Considering the many interests already attached to our new place, the populous country that surrounds us, and the object we have in hand, such circumstances give me con fidence in my appeal to a public that was always eminent in supporting what they thought would be useful to their country. I think it will be well to explain, that though in every college there will be 500 scholars, arrangements are so made that there will be only 25 or 30 scholars together; because every college is divided into four divisions of 125 scholars each, every division being quite distinct and com pletely separated in every respect, and each division being subdivided into classes of 25 or 30. Such arrangements as those mentioned will materially conduce to the parents' satisfaction, regarding their daughters, in a country where the females' education, well conferred, is very costly, and a good school at a moderate price can scarcely be ob tained. Religion and education will be entrusted, the first to the clergy of the Established Church, the second to the most eminent men that can be procured ; it being one grand object of this system to let the advantages be as perfect and complete as possible. Once well organised and established, we shall contrive to extend our establishments; and on that being the case, we shall reduce the rate of payment, as now proposed. I have now explicitly and frankly explained to you my views, and hope you will unite with us, and contrive, by advising directly your friends, to induce them to register their children as soon as possible ; and, as 1 have already said, so soon as our register musters 300 signatures, we shall unite ourselves here to choose amongst them the director, directresses, trustees, &c. lam quite confident, as I can promise you, that when our society shall be formed and organised, several of the most talented and eminent men of the country will join and assist us. With the extensiveness of the proposed colleges, the well organised comfort of them, with the minimum payment which at this present moment is given for a very inferior education, when the parents shall know that they are obtaining a degree of education and com fort that in any other establishment could not be obtained under a £lOO or £l5O a-year, we shall be certain to see springing from this place the most useful system of education that ever could be brought into society. We shall see also established round us a great number of clergymen and tutors, with a view of giving to their pupils the advantage of instruc tion hours in the colleges, and superintendi ng th e i r mora l s and religion at home. What, then, I shall propose to you, is to form a temporary committee, by the advice of which we shall proceed to obtain persons who may wish to register their children, at the same time we shall be happy to receive any suggestion by which our object may be advanced. The resolutions, which will be found in our advertising columns, were then put in several very able addresses, and carried. MURDER AND ROBBERY OF ARMS.—The Dublin Gazette states that on the 3d instant, about a quarter to twelve o'clock, noon, a party of four men entered the house of Mr. William Hardy, of the townland of Dolla, and county of Tip perary, and robbed it of a blunderbuss, a sword, two guns, and a pistol, and that one of the party struck Mr. Samuel Hardy on the head with a stone, which fractured his skull, and of which he died soon after. The Gazette further con tains the offer of a reward of £lOO for the discovery of the parties who actually committed the outrage. THE TARIFF.—The new tariff has found as much favour in the upper as it did in the lower house ; for, on Lord Stanhope dividing their lordships against the second reading of the bill, the minority who voted against government was only four, while the majority for ministers was 59. The majorities by which this measure has hitherto passed through either house of parliament will surely convince the wildest free-trade spouter that to moderately and temperately con ceived schemes of commercial reform there is no consider able party in the country opposed. SINGULAR AND PERILOUS POSITION OF A CLERGYMAN. —The long succession of drought experienced in Teesdale for about seven weeks past, has been succeeded by heavy rains, which caused a sudden swelling of the river in the mountainous district of Teesdale on Saturday last, at which time it ap pears that a rev. gentleman, residing about six miles " down east " of the "metropolis of the Tees," was upon an island in the bed of that river, and was accompanied by a boy and two men, all engaged, as old Isaac Walton has it, in " the gentle art," when they were suddenly surrounded by deep water, which cut off all retreat. No boat being at hand, the friends of the parties, on being apprised of their situation, brought ropes, and fixed the ends of one set to the top of a scar opposite, throwing the other ends to the unlucky islanders, in order that they might fix them to the trees on the island, and so form an inclined plane, up which they were to climb their weary way, but the scheme not succeeding, they were supplied with additional clothing, spirits, matches, &c., " via" the inclined plane. Some sticks being gathered, they lighted a fire, and, Crusoe-like, passed a night the reverse of comfortable, and during the following Sabbath scores of per sons were to be seen passing their jokes at their luckless plight. On the evening of that day, however, the waters having subsided, one of the party fastened himself to a rope, and was dragged ashore. Emboldened by his success, the rest of the party followed his example, and ultimately they were all rescued from their very uncomfortable position. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT—THREE LIVES LOST.—Short ly after the arrival of the Pacific of Aberdeen, Captain Morri son, at Quebec' a most distressing accident occurred, by which three of the lives of those on; board were sacrificed. A young man of the name of George Grott, and a young woman, Margaret Swanson, had formed an attachment during the passsage out. n arriving at the above port, they had gone on shore for some purpose, leaving the rest of the passengers on board. The vessel not having been along side the quay, they had to be taken on shore in a boat. On their return, and while going up the. ladder which hung over the side of the vessel into the boat, they both lost their bold, and were precipitated into the water, and the current at the time running eight miles an hour, they were swept along with it. On observing their perilous position, Mr. William Morrison, son of Captain Morrison, jumped overboard to their rescue. He reached the unfortunate sufferers, but only, alas ! to share the doom to which they had been devoted. THE LIGHT COINAGE.—For the last ten days the work men and welters at the mint have been actively employed in striking an immense quantity of new sovereigns, half-sove reigns, half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences, for the Bank of England, so as to meet the run upon them this week, as the 80 will whenhe removed the changing to a quarterly dividends become d ue , an d w ill b e i n course o f inpayamena fromtaft Wednesday, £ er 2o to of the establishment, instead o f t h e Rotunda. The quan tity of light gold presented at the bank since the procla mation of the 3rd of June, exceeds £1,500,000 s t er li ng , and that principally confined to the metropolis, so that the employes have had enough to do, although the payments in notes and silver, instead of full weight gold, have been gene rally the demand of the public. The number of light sove reigns in 1842 exceeds that of 1841 in proportion as five to one. Up to the 31st of December, 1841, the amount of gold coin tendered at the Bank of England was as follows :—Lon don, £12.230,975 ; rejected,X3,263,B2o; branches,X7,463,7B9; rejected, £1,007,245; total, £19,694,764; light, £4,271,065. As the bank directors have not yet sanctioned their branch banks in the country to take light gold, and that in small su ms, the greatest difficulty exists in the manufacturing and agricultural districts to obtain silver, although a considerable quantity has been sent from time to time to Liverpool, Bir mingham, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Doncaster, Norwich, Nottingham, Buckinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Essex, and other Populous counties. shopkeers and Jews in the large towns are reaping i s i i , lv u e n r d . er T tl: , e is pr e aT_lgioelpdeetntyharvest at thdeedeuxepteiangselosftothies 6hdarpdewrosrokvienrgeiagnadan, in dustrious classes by be obviated did but the branch banks ne farious system would some are instances li gt , i per ti .ex h e a i l l half-sovereign, e f r o e r i g in sum s as low as £3 or £5 at the same price £1 notes, the run upon the local circulating medium being 9t pre tence take tc °e light tlhsaitnt goldhey such that the Poor Law Guardians backs for silver has been as the Bank of England. many parts of the country, the orders to the amount, which the trade s p eo ple have been obliged to take, or run th e in several districts have not been able to pay their regular out-door relief in specie, but have given coinage is received at and lose their custom. As the light establish ment, of the the Bank, it is put apart in another branch . risk of incurring the displeasure of these . humane bashaws and half-sovereigns of the reign of her than and sent to the mint to be graciousrecoinmeodsitnto sovereigns Ma jesty Queen Victoria, the Mint not taking less sums £lO,OOO. By this means government expects to be ablesoon to call i n all the old gold coinage of G eorge the Third and George the Fourth, from 1817 to 1820. The same with the silver, which is greatly deficient in weight. THEATRE-ROYAL MR. T. RUSSELL'S BENEFIT. T HIS EVENING, (FRIDAY,) the Bth instant, will he performed the Drama of DOMINIQUE! THE DESERTER. Dominique.. Mr. J. Russell. After which, AN HOUR OF TABLE TALK; In which he will sing the Songs. " Persevere"—" Pasticcio"—" The Old Brititii Oak"--and the " Angel's Whisper." To conclude with the Drama - of RORY O'MORE. Rory O'More.. Mr. J. Russell, In which he will introduce the " WIDDY MALoNE," which was honoured with an enthusiastic encore on Wednesday Evening. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS THIS popular and pre-eminently attractive Resort is open Daily, from Seven A.M. till Dusk. The GRAND EVENING FETES take place every Monday and Friday during the Season, with THE ROMAN FESTA. At Dusk, THE GRAND ILLUMINATION OF ST. PETER'S. This inconceivably magnificent Spectacle is succeeded by the Pyrotechnic Wonders of the GIRANDOLA OF ST. ANGELO, . . with all its splendid incidents, terminating with the gorgeous Cascade of brilliant Fire, and tremendous Flight of Rockets. To enliven the Evening's Promenade, MR. STUBBS' ROYAL HARMONIC BAND will perform the following selection : GLEE—" Red Cross Knight." I " Valse La Caille"../ullien GLEE—" Hail, Smiling Morn." " Hark ! the Vesper." " Rondo Finale." ................. • ...... La Cenerentola CORA—Scena E Cavatina Nell Opera—" Beatrico de Tenda" Bellini Opera, La Somnambula Il Barbiere di Seviglia Aldridge . Tolbecgue " Corma Me Sereno" " Dunque E Vero Jo Nen Mingano' GLEE—" We Three be Farmer Lads" QUADRILLE—" Sur Les Huguenots" With other Selections of English, Irish, Welsh, and Scotch Airs ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON PHRENOLOGY MR. RUMBALL' S CHALLENGE TO MR. BRINDLEY. IN consequence of Mr. Brindley's late Lectures in London and elsewhere, in which he has again repudiated the Doctrines of Phrenology, • I HEREBY CHALLENGE that Gentleman to a fair and full DISCUSSION of its Principles and Deductions, in the Town of LIVERPOOL, where I purpose delivering a COURSE of FIVE LEC TURES, to commence in a few Days. J. Q. RUMBALL, St. Alban's, June 24, 1842. MR. BRINDLEY'S REPLY. Mr. RUMBALL'S Challenge having been referred by me to a Committee of Professional Gentlemen, who have consented to act on my behalf, and it being considered that that Chap• lenge is couched in such terms as to warrant the conclusion that a fair and candid inquiry is contemplated, I IIEREBY ACCEPT IT, on such conditions as may be hereafter mu tually agreed upon. (Signed) JOHN BRINDLEY. Chester, June 29, 1842. In accordance with the above recited Challenge and its acceptance, it is hereby announced that THE PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON PHRENOLOGY WILL BE CONTINUED BETWEEN MESSRS. RUMBALL AND BRINDLEY, AT THE PORTICO, NEWINGT ON, ON THE EVENINGS OF THIS DAY, (Friday,) the Bth, MONDAY, the 11th, and WEDNESDAY, the 13th instant, commencing each Even ing punctually at Seven o'clock. Admission to the Body of the Room, One Shilling ; to the Gallery, Sixpence ; Reserved Seats on the Platform, by Ticket only, Two Shillings each ; to be had at the News paper Offices. TO CORRESPONDENTS We cannot answer the question of "An Enquirer." We apprehend the resolutions of the magistrates apply to the Grand Order of Modern Druids. Ebe Zibtrpool &tanbatt. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1842 The Manchester Guardian of Wednesday contains an article headed " Sir Robert Peel's Opinions on Ma nufacturing Distress," which is not quite of so discreet a character as usually are the remarks of our contem porary. In the debate of Friday upon the subject of the distress existing amongst the labouring and com mercial classes, the right honourable baronet alluded, as one moving cause of that distress, to the constantly increasing power of machinery, as applied to manu facturing purposes, by which a large quantity of adult labour is displaced and thrown helpless upon the world ; and at the same time expressed an opinion, that, give the British manufacturer all the benefits—all the additional markets--which he calculates upon, as the result of a free trade in corn, the expansive power of machinery will ultimately overtake the increased demand created, and we must still " look forward to occasional severe local distress." . We quote entire the passage referred to by the Guardian, which he characterizes as containing " the Tory Luddite doctrines regarding machinery "; and, if such be the case, then is Tory Luddism very much like sound and reasonable doctrine. " It is my belief," says the right hon. baronet, " that giv ing you the repeal of the corn laws, and giving you the con sequences you anticipate, y e t such is the condition of the ma nufacturers (and particularly in this country), I am afraid you must look forward to, occasionally, severe local distress. At this moment, when distress is so severe in some parts of the country, there are new mills in the course of erection. (Hear, hear.) That is a fact. The command of capital in duces men, even during periods of severe distress, to con struct new mills, and to fill them with new machinery. Now, what must be the consequence of this? Must there not al ways be in some localities men of small capital, and with im perfect machinery, yet still employing large masses of the po pulation, who would find it difficult to enter into competi tion with those who could command capital, and apply it to the construction of the best machinery, and thus ultimately labour would be thrown out of employment ? To resist the progress of these improvements is impossible ; and though there might be a demand for cotton manufactures, yet there might be, simultaneously with that demand, the existence of severe distress, on account of the sudden application of new machinery to meet the demand. Sir, I won't dwell on this. I could prove it to be the case, and could show that the immediate consequence of the improvement of machinery, and the application of capital to the construction of it, has been productive, in certain parts of the country, of extraordinary results—that the tendency of it was to drive out of employment adult male labour, and to substitute for it the labour of females and children ; and that the infallible consequence was, that the man of 25 or 30 years of age, who, up to that period of life, had been em ployed in a cotton manufactory, found it difficult to turn his hand to any other employment. Now, you must not make the corn-laws responsible for evils of that kind. It is no impeachment of the invention—the invention may increase, on the whole, the demand for labour, and may call into em ployment the mechanism and industry of other nations ; the commercial prosperity may be great ; yet in certain districts of the country, from which it is difficult to transfer a mar ried man and his large family, the progress of these improve ments may produce great distress, even in times when there is a great demand for labour ; and in this state of things, even with an increased demand for your manufactures, I could not anticipate that absence of distress and suffering on which some Iron. gentlemen calculate." Surely there is nothing here which it does not befit a statesman to utter. Did the right honourable ba ronet go out of his way thus to point attention to the known operation of machinery in producing " occa sional distress " amongst the labourers whom its pro gressive advance to greater perfectness displaces ? Certainly not ! The operation of machinery has now become an essential portion of that very subject which was pressed upon the consideration of the House of Commons, by the motion of Mr. Wallace to inquire into the condition of the working people of Great Bri tain. No statesman has a right—no candid man is able—to disconnect the question, as to the influence of machinery, from the main question proposed by such an inquiry —viz., the causes of the suffering complained of, of which that is assuredly one. And yet we are gravely told by the Guardian, who is ever beside himself when the very word machinery, as connected with manufacturing operations, is whis pered, and is at such times not overpolite in his chid • ings of the offender, that " all this harangue about the evils arising from the progress of mechanical im provements can be viewed in no other light than as a mischievous appeal to the passions of the multitude." The anti-corn-law agitators, and our contemporary amongst the loudest, may rail and rave against the "landed aristocracy" as the originators of all the ills under which a suffering people labour, and still be guilty of no "mischievous appeal to the passions of the multitude" ; but mention the mere fact that a selfish millocracy, whilst professing its disinterested and affectionate sympathy with the working classes, is busily devising the means of dispensing with the la bour of those very classes, and we are incontinently " Tory Luddites " and traitors of the deepest dye. The Guardian has been indiscreet in reviving this subject i n hi s prosy co l umns, an d we will tell him why. He sh ou ld h ave taken a hint from h ea d quart ers ! Mr. Wallace's motion, notwithstanding the catching theme which it furnished for Whig-Radical orators to de claim upon, was, on Monday n i g ht, perm i tted to fall to the ground, by the common manoeuvre of " no house ;" and we suggest to our contemporary whether the significant demonstration afforded in the speech of the Premier, (that in all future dis cussions upon that important subject, the deteriorated condition of the industrious classes of Great Britain, the operation of improvements in manufacturing machinery, can no longer be passed by unnoticed,) was not one, at least, of the inducements of Whiggery to burke the inquiry which it had provoked. Depend upon it, most cunning brother, that question must, be fore long, whether millocracy will it or not, claim the full attention which it merits from the legislature and the people of England ! By the way, we observe that our contemporary af fects to doubt the fact that new mills are building during the existing distress of the manufacturing interest, and asks to be informed where they are. Perhaps we may be able to enlighten him if he really desires it. In the mean time he will surely not deny that the erection of the improved machinery, alluded to by Sir Robert Peel, is very generally going on. Sometime ago we mentioned that in one particular district, as a boon to the working classes no doubt, each spinner had been enabled to manage two frames, thus dispensing with half the adult hands in the factory. An inquiry from any of his Blackburn friends will inform him that a single spinner can now manage three frames, by which only one third of the adult labour is employed which was required three years ago ! And yet it is the corn laws which are the causes of all the distress which we see around us in the manufacturing districts ! ! The present depressed state of the commerce of this country falls with peculiar and almost ruinous weight upon our shipping interests, and upon every branch of trade dependent upon its prosperity. In particular, the shipwrights, a body of men second to none amongst our industrious classes, are just now, even in our own port, undergoing privations which call loudly upon us for sympathy and aid ; and it therefore becomes us to inquire whether some effort cannot be made to revive the prosperity of a branch of trade, the extension of which, in this locality, would be of such essential benefit to the general welfare of the town. The reduction of the timber duties by Sir Robert Peel's government, is, without question, a measure eminently calculated to afford vast advantages to Liver pool as a shipbuilding port. Already the character of our builders ranks amongst the first in the kingdom ; and the admission at a reduced duty of valuable foreign woods, suitable for the construction of seagoing vessels, will mitigate the only difficulty under which we have hitherto laboured, as compared with some other ship building localities,—viz., our distance from the place of growth of the best native timber. From this source, therefore, we do anticipate some revival of the building trade ; but we must express our conviction that the boon conceded by government in the reduction of the timber duties—a boon particularly dwelt upon by its authors as calculated to affect beneficially this trade— will be seriously neutralised unless a helping hand is held out by the local authorities of the port, and the greatest possible amount of facilities are afforded to the builders, by the dock trustees. Upon more than one occasion we have seen this valuable class of men most cavalierly treated. The removal of a building yard to the extreme north or south end of the town to make room for piles of rubbish or materials required in the construction of the the various dock works, for which plenty of other suitable localities might have been dis covered, has been regarded as a light matter when willed by a sub-committee, or demanded by a surveyor; and the interruption of business, the loss of heavy out lay, the distress of hundreds of industrious artisans thrown out of employment, with the loss of rental to the estate itself, have been considered as amply ba lanced by the saving of a little extra cartage and extra surveillance of a few bars of iron, or a few blocks of granite But it is for the repairing of vessels,—a branch of the trade of infinite value to the builders and workmen employed, and to the port as well,—which the dock trustees possess within themselves the power of render ing this the first locality in the kingdom. At present, it is notorious that Liverpool is one of the dearest ports for repairs in the kingdom. In addition to the other port charges, which press most onerously upon the ship owner (and in such depressed times as the present, we may say ruinously), the graving dock dues are, out of all proportion, enormous. Let these dues, which come exclusively out of the pockets of the shipping interest, and act in many instances as an absolute bar to our shipwrights and builders, be reduced. No serious in jury to the dock estate could result; and if made almost nominal, we question whether the additional number of vessels which would be brought to frequent the port, would not more than cover the loss, by the additional revenue derived from other charges. No circumstance so greatly tends to promote the re sort of shipping to a port as cheapness and facility of repairs ; and yet how absolutely overlooked by our local authorities are both these important desiderata ? Cheapness we have not ; large facilities of graving docks we have not. Within the last few months numerous vessels have left Liverpool, wanting necessary repairs, and proceeded to Bristol and other places to procure them, because they were not to be had here without ruinous delay. "Want of dock room, and the detention and expense caused by it, have compelled others to de fer repairs not absolutely indispensible, because, with those expenses deducted from their meagre freights, they were unable to afford there. We see no adequate attempts being made by the dock authorities to repair this deficiency of graving dock accommodation. At the Queen's Dock, alterations, imperatively required, were ordered months ago,—and yet they are uncommenced ; and whilst we can afford to build dock warehouses, which the alteration of our commercial tariff is about to render almost useless, these important and pressing requirements of our commerce arc permitted to be wholly overlooked, or at the least, to remain in the shade as matters of mere secondary interest. We must press this subject upon the serious consi deration of the interests most materially affected by the grievances complained of. Let the shipowners' and shipbuilders' associations bestir themselves in the pro per quarter ; and by the aid of remedial measures on the part of the authorities of our port, and the stimulus afforded by the liberal commercial policy of the govern ment, the present ruinous condition of a large and im portant class of our fellow-townsmen may be exchanged for one of revived prosperity and comfort. The writer of a Conservative Journal, to whose scan dalous and unfounded remarks, upon the subject of the recent retirement of the Rev. Mr. Wilson from the incumbency of St. Thomas-in-the-Fields, we offered on Tuesday a few words of refutation, has, in his yes terday's publication, bespattered the respected gentle man by whose munificence the church in question was built and endowed, with a column and a half of that peculiarly elegant vituperation in which he excels. With this we quarrel not, although receiving a sprink ling of the dirty shower, and we are confident that Mr. Gladstone is very far above being injured, cr even annoyed, by such an assailant. The rankling venom of the writer's mind is too transparent to allow any ebullition of his to excite pain or even notice ; and we have only brought ourselves to bestow a few remarks upon his present effusion in order to correct the misre presentations, and to point the reprobation of our fellow townsmen to the insolence of tone, by which it is cha racterised throughout. We had already, in our explanatory remarks upon the real circumstances connected with the retirement of Mr. Wilson from St. Thomas'-in-the-Fields, placed the writer of the previous attack upon Mr. Gladstone in the position of a convicted slanderer. That malig nant and unscrupulous authority had termed the praiseworthy gift, by that gentleman to the town of Liverpool, of a place of worship, and an endowment for its minister, a " mercantile speculation." He had directly insinuated that a pecuniary profit was to be derived from it; that it was a pecuniary disappointment to its founder that the church " did not draw ;" and that he had treated it " like a Liverpool ship—not worth the fitting out if it did not pay itself in the first three voyages." We slimed, and it was scarcely ne cessary to do so, that the entire circumstances of the case were directly opposed to the mendacious repre sentations and insinuations of the journalist; that not only was the church fully endowed; not only could no profit whatever accrue to the founder; but that, in addition to the interest of £2ooo—the stipend fund— the pew rents became the absolute property of the in cumbent, after payment of the ordinary expenses at tendant upon the performance of divine worship. Does this veracious scribe attempt, in his column and a half of balderdash, to deny any one of these facts ? No. lie scarcely approaches them, but crawls off to batten upon the garbage raised up by his own prurient imagination. Two thousand pounds and a church are a paltry thing, he exclaims, for a clergyman of eminent talents " in such an expensive town as Liverpool !" Two thousand pounds, invested in the three per cents, " cannot secure more than £65 per annum"—(the £2OOO in question not being invested in the public funds, produce, we are informed, £96 per annum)—and Mr. Gladstone, instead of £2OOO and a church, should have made it " four thousand !" But, in addition to the enormity of presenting to the town of Liverpool a church, with an endowment of two thousand pounds, or ninety-six pounds a year, Mr. Gladstone's traducer, has discovered that that gentleman has conducted himself in the matter " more like the Lord Bishop of the diocese, than the simple patron and the illiterate layman." He has " interfered " with the doctrine preached in the church ; he has " relieved the bishop of his duties, usurped his throne, and enacted the part of bishop, merchant, trader, and theologian himself ! " And what ground have we for these assertions? Not any; and we would not hang a cat upon the unsupported authority of the writer by whom they are made. For the information and amusement of our readers, we give here the scribe's new version of his trumped-up charge : • " What we complained of at the first, and what we com plain of now, is, that Mr. Gladstone, by the showing of his advocate, did not give fair play, or proper toleration, to Mr. Wilson. Instead of six months, he did not give him more than two or three. Mr. Gladstone officiously, cruelly, and most vexatiously interposed ' several months' before Mr. Wilson finally retired (1). iti e seems to have passed a sen tence of condemnation upon him before the patron's love was six weeks old. -Were his doctrines offensive to the theolo gian of Fasque ? Did his strict discipline, his conscientious. adherence to the forms and directions of the rubric, his mild ness of manners, or his fidelity to Alma Mater, incur the dis approbation of the patron? Nothing is said on this point; and hence we suspect that all the truth is not told, and that the real reasons for interfering with Mr. Wilson are kept in the back ground. " It is not confessed who the person is to whom Mr. Wilson was indebted for the preferment—whether •to the elder Mr. Gladstone, or to Mr. William Ewart Gladstone, is of no consequence. The reverend gentleman was appointed—he was inducted—he was in possession —and the patron's juris diction was at an end. No patron, no layman on earth, had any right to question the purity of his doctrine, the merits of his discipline, or the fruit of his works ; and we hesitate not to say that, on the score of delicacy, of respect, of re verence, towards a clergyman of the Church of England, no gentleman with a mind differently constituted from tliata Mr. Gladstone would have acted and interfered as Mr. Gladstone has done. If he had had any complaint to make against Mr. Wilson, it should have been made to his ordinary, the Bishop of Chester. It is true that the munificent patron could not well complain to the bishop that his appointee did not fill the church fast enough—that only one-eighth part of the pews had not been let in the first three months—that the money received did not cover the ordinary expenditure. No, Mr. Gladstone could not safely do this; and yet he did much more: he relieved the right reverend prelate of his duties, usurped his throne, and enacted the part of bishop, merchant, trader, and theologian himself! Oxford was removed to Fasque ! Mr. Wilson quailed before the Presbyterian critic, and doffed his surplice at St. Thomas's, in order to convince the world what value ought to be placed on a FREE GIFT' emanating from such a quarter !" The real facts of the matter lie in a nutshell, and are worth whole reams of such rubbish as is the staple of the article under notice. Mr. Wilson was presented to this living of £96 per annum, and some hundreds additional in the shape of pew rents. His church did not fill; and his pew rents were less than the neces sary expenditure—not one-eighth of the pews being let! Mr. Wilson resigned his living, and after three months' postponement of Mr. Gladstone's acceptance of that resignation—three months' further trial—at lengths left the church. Mr. Wilson was never dismissed; was never deprived of "fair play" or of " proper toleration;" never in any way "interfered with." On the contrary, he resigned, simply because his church wonld not fill ; and, although three months' additional trial was afforded him, we have it now as a ground of complaint, first, that " only two or three months' " toleration was given him from his first acceptance of the living ; and next, that another three months being afforded him before his resignation was accepted, was " CRUEL AND MOST VEXATIOUS" In fact, the entire hash of absurd railing and rhodo montade contained in the two paragraghs which we have quoted, is pure fiction and stark nonsense,—the emanation of a mind boiling over with rankling dis like to the object of his vituperation, arid smarting under the contempt with which he feels that his late attacks upon the character of men, infinitely and in every way his superiors, have surrounded him, and the abortiveness of his attempts to acquire even the temporary notice which we bestow upon some " loses nature," or literary monstrosity. But we are sick of the task which we have imposed upon ourselves of convicting this self-convicted blun derer. Before parting from the subject, however, a few words upon our own account. The journalist under notice has chosen to apply to us the term " hireling," and insinuated that we are hirelings of Mr. Gladstone. We care little for his objurgations, and the choicest words in his delicate vocabulary would be lost upon us. We must tell him, however, to his teeth, that, in the sense in which he uses the term, we are hirelings of no man ; and that we in finitely prefer being " the obscure or rather unknown scribe," which he politely calls us, to being encum bered with his unenviable notoriety. LOCAL NEWS EXTRAORDINARY RACE.-On Monday morning, at five minutes past five o'clock, fifty -two carrier pigeons belonging to different persons at Brussels, were let loose in Liverpool, and started off with the swiftness of the wind, on a race to the Belgian capital. They had been brought over to this place covered up in a basket, for a grand trial of their swift ness and sagacity in returning to their homes, and the win ner of the stakes will carry off a handsome sweepstakes. They were set at liberty in the neighbourhood of St. Luke's 'Church, and immediately rose to at least double the height of its tower, after which they all started off to the south east, the direct route to Brussels, with incredible rapidity. When they were let loose, the morning was bright and beau tiful, but if the rain should have been as heavy in the south east, during the day, as it was here, their flight will have been greatly impeded, and some of them will be likely to lose their way across the channel. We shall be curious to hear the result of this extraordinary race. TRAFFIC ON RAILWAYS.-Mr. Richard Dawson, of this town, has published some very interesting information on the subject of railways. Much credit is due to Mr. Dawson for the patient and careful consideration he has bestowed upon the subject. The following table, compiled by that gentle man, forms the gross receipt of 38 railways now in operation, from the Ist January, 1812, to the 25th June, 1842, inclusive : s. d. Arbroath and Forfar...... Birmingham and Del by Junction Birmingham and Gloucester Brandling Junction Chester and Birkenhead Dundee and Arbroath Dublin and Kingston .... Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow, 18 weeks.. Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock.. Grand Junction Great North of England Great Western .. Hayle, 18 weeks. 3,292 7 11 Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston.. Liverpool and Manchester London and Birmingham London and Blackwall 20,519 14 9 London and Brighton London and Croydon London and Greenwich 22,189 18 8 London and South Western Manchester and Birmingham Manchester, Bolton, and Bury .... Manchester and Leeds 108,890 13 2 Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle.... Newcastle and North Shields . North Midland North Union Northern and Eastern Preston and Wyre 4,625 0 5 Sheffield and Manchester 6,608 13 5 South Eastern and Dover, 5 weeks Ulster York and North Midland . 2,031,010 11 71 Deduct 40 per cent. for working 812,404 0 0 £1,218,606 0 0 Thus it will appear, that, on thirty - eight railways now i n operation, for which returns have been published, the gross receipt for six months this year is £2,031,010 From which deduct 40 per cent. for expenses.. 812,404 Leaving to be divided amongst the proprietors £1,218,60G Be it, howe ver , r emembered, that even in the const ruct i on of these impo r t an t undertakings, every shilling has bee n expended in our own country ; and thus the wealth has been distributed amongst the working class of the community, and the £812,401, deducted for one half-year's expenses, has also been apppli s d in the same useful way, in pr ov idi ng em ployment for the labourer, artificer, and mechanic, and thus rendering a great benefit to our country. Our readers attention is directed to the following commu nication (translated from the German) addressed to Messrs. Rowlands' ac , ent at Cologne :—" ]3, Strait:. Euggasse, Co logne, May 23, 1841.—Mr. Th. S. Ditges.—Sir,—l have much pleasure in informing you of the extraordinary years I effects of ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL.' For ab ove n i ne had not a particle of hair on my head, when I was casually recommended to give this celebrated oil a trial. I accordingly purchased two bottles at your estaolishment, and strictly followed the printed directions ; in the course of two months my head was covered with fine short hair. which I had cut off, and continued to persevere in the use of the oil. The result is, that after five months perseverance, I can now boast of as good a head of hair as any man in this city. In justice to the inventors I make this a cknowledgment, and shall feel greet pleasure in satisfying any inquiry. —I salute you with respect, " ADAM BAuru, Bth Artillery Brigade." —See advt. The Acadia, Captain Ryrie, sailed from Liverpool on Tuesday afternoon with her Majesty's mails for Canada and the United States. She had 60 passengers, amongst whom were Lady Bagot and family. Yesterday morning the policeman on duty found the body of a man in a court leading out of Chisenhale-street. We have not heard the cause of the man's death, but are informed there were several marks of violence on his body. PROCESSIONS.—The town was yesterday placarded with bills announcing that the procession of the teetotallers had been abandoned, and that the anniversary would be kept up by the other contemplated festivities. We are glad to s a y that the Orangemen do not now purpose walking; and we therefore hope to see these unmeaning displays no longer in dulged in by any class of the community. AIECHAN ICS'S INSTITUTION.—The number of visitors to the extraordinary exhibition in Mount-street seems daily to increase. Ai the latter parts of each day the crowd is indeed so great 1111111 no single visit can do more than give a very su perficial notion of the several arrangements. We rejoice to observe, that the public will now have an opportunity of re peating their visits, as often as they please, without any pro portionate increase of charge. The advertisement, in another column, states, that on and after Monday next, when half the time of the exhibition will have sxpired, season tickets, for the remaining three weeks, will be issued to the public at 2s. 6d. each. We trust that very many will avail them selves of the privilege thus considerately granted. The fact that above 16,000 children, belonging to the various charity. schools, have been invited to attend this exhibition gratui tously, is a sufficient evidence of the committee's desire to do the greatest possible amount of good. ROBBERY BY A BOY FROM HIS MASTER.—A lad, named George Stevens, was, yesterday, charged before Mr. Rushton with robbing his employer of a quantity of thread. Inspector Anders said, that about five o'clock on the pre vious afternoon, he saw the prisoner in Scotland-place, and, as he appeared to have somethinc , bulky about him, he stopped him, and found concealed in his trousers three packets containing 31bs. of thread. On questioning him, he said he was shop-boy at Mr. Farrell's Byrom-stret, and had been sent with the thread to a house in Kirkdale. Mr. Joseph Farrell said he was a smallware-dealer in Byrom street, and that the prisoner had been with him about nine months as errand-boy. About two o'clock on the previous day, he sent the prisoner for some thread into the store room, where it was packed up in bundles of Gibs. each ; and desired him to unpack some of it, and put it on separate lbs. on the shelves of the shop. He left the shop while the pri soner was doing so, and, on returning, about half an hour afterwards, sent him home to his tea. About half-past three, Inspector Anders called and shewed him 31bs. of thread, which he claimed as his. He had so large a stock that he could not have missed it. The prisoner was com mitted for trial. CHARGE OF THEFT AGAINST A WATCHMAN.—A man named William Mulholland, and a woman who gave her name as Eliva Mulholland, were yesterday placed at the bar of the Police-court, on a charge of having stolen a quantity of starch.—lnspector Edwards said, that on the previous night, about ten o'clock, while he was on duty in Simpson street, he observed the female prisoner come out of Watkin son-street into the former street; and as she appeared to be bulky, he suspected something was wrong, and followed her. On getting up to her he found she had something concealed under her shawl, and put some questions to her respecting it. She said it was starch, and that she had got it yonder— (pointing in the direction from which she had come.) He told her she must go back with him and shew him the place. On the way back she said she had got it at the starch works in Bridgewater-street, where her husband was employed as watchman. He then took her to Brick-street bridewell, and there took from her four parcels, each containing 5 lbs. of starch. Ile afterwards went to Mr. Tarbuck's works, Bridgewater-place. Bridgewater-street, where he found the male prisoner,—who admitted in court that the female was his wife. Two keys were found upon him.—Mr. Charles Gildersleeves, clerk to Mr. Tarbuck, said the prisoner was watchman on the premises, and that he went on duty at six in the evening, and remained till six in the morning. NA , fit ness had left the counting-house at six o'clock on the previ ous evening, at which time he gave him the key of the office, to give to Mr. Tarbuck's young man when he brought the dog down. The key of the starch-room was kept in the office. He missed four parcels of starch, of 5 lbs. each, in paper, similar to thos e p ro d uce d : an d t h ey were there at six o'clock. The prisoner said that he had done nothing what ever ; he had never given away an ounce. He was committed for trial at the sessions. As the female was, it appeared, his wife, she was discharged. STEALING CLOTHES FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE.—At the Police-court yesterday, an ill-clad young man, named William Dyson (before known to the police), was placed at the bar on a charge of stealing a quantity of clothes. Eliza beth Townley, wife of a watchmaker residing in Prince Edward Terrace, Everton, said that about two o'clock on the previous afternoon he placed a quantity of clothes con sisting of table cloths, shirts, and other ar ti c l es o f wear i ng apparel, on a tabl e under the cellar kitchen window, which was down, and went up stairs to make the beds. In about an hour afterwards, some one knocked at the door, and she went down, and was told that some one had carried some thing off. She then missed the clothes, and went to Rose hill Bridewell, where she found them in charge of an officer. Police-constable Bryan Winterscales said, that about half past three that afternoon, he saw the prisoner with a little boy crossing from Prince Edward-street to the north Hay market. The boy was carrying a large bundle. He stopped them, and asked the boy where he was taking it to. The prisoner said he was taking them to his sister's in Garden lane, to be washed. He then asked where they had got them. The prisoner replied from his sister's in Everton. He seized the prisoner; and the boy then threw down the 'bundle and escaped. He took the articles to bridewell, where they were immediately afterwards claimed by Mrs. Townley. The prisoner said that the boy had told him that he had got them at his sister's ; that that was what he bad said, and that he knew nothing of them. He was committed for trial at the sessions. He had before been three times committed, and once discharged for want of evidence. The clothes were stated to be worth about £4. FATAL ACCIDENT.—CURIOUS CASE RELATIVE TO THE JURISDICTION OF CORONERS.—On Saturday forenoon last, two young men, sons of Mr. James Cooke, of Moor-place, accompanied by another youth, went across the river to amuse themselves on the Cheshire side. Below Egremont Ferry, they each hired one of the ponies, kept on the shore for the recreation of visitors, arid rode along to New Brighton. On reaching the pier, they alighted to get a glass of ale at the small public-house there, taking the animals close to the wall, where they usually stand side by side until they are again wanted. One of the young men (Cooke) on leaving the spot passed between two of the ponies, and happening, it is supposed, to touch one of them in getting through, the animal, either alarmed or vicious, struck out his hind legs twice, giving him. in the second instance, a violent blow in the abdomen. He did not, however, feel so much hurt, but he was able to remount and ride back slowly to the spot from which they had started. He came back to Liverpool with his companions, who, as he now complained a good deal, took him to Mr. Crips's surgery in Dale-street ; but that gentleman not being at home, they took him to his father's house, where he arrived about two o'clock. Mr. Steward, of Seymour-street, was sent for, and he sent Mr. Mc Fie, of the same street, to his assistance. That gentleman used such means as he considered proper for his releif, but without avail, as the young man, after lingering in great pain, died at about eight o'clock on the following morning (Monday.) The deceased was, we learn, 24 years of age. The borough coroner summoned a jury, who viewed the body •, and an inquest was commenced nest day, and part of the evidence taken, when Mr. Curry found that he had no power to proceed, in consequence of a recent decision of Lord Chief Justice Denman, who lays it down that both the cause of the death, arid the death itself must occur within the district over which any particular coroner has jurisdiction, to enable him legally to enter into an investiga tion of this nature, and receive the verdict of a jury ! In this case as the cause of death arose in Cheshire, and the death took place in Lancashire, it appeared that under this strange meaning a construction of the inquest act, neither he, nor the coroner for the Cheshire districts have power to act. This, we have heard, is also th e o pi n i on o f our acute Town clerk, on reading Lord Denman's decision. The conse quences in this case are lamentable. The desolate father of the deceased young man, is naturally unwilling that the body should be taken back to Cheshire and brought back for interment here ; and he has no power to inter without a coroner's order, which cannot be granted without the inter vention of au inquisition ; so that the remains which have been above ground since Monday morning, must remain so sine die, unless sonic speedy alteration of the law by a new act of parliament take place, or an order be received from the Home Secretary, suspending the operation of the law under the peculiar circumstances of the case. We under stand that the Town-clerk, on learning the facts, promptly wrote to head quarters, so that one or other of these alterna tives will, it is to be hoped, be resorted to. The Coroner has also written to Mr. Churton, the coroner for that part of Cheshire where the accident occurred, but whether that gen tleman will act upon his own responsibility, and thus render himself liable to an indictment,—or decline to take proceed ings, —is not yet known. One method, though a surrepti titious, and perhaps an illegal one, has been suggested to us, by which the difficulty might be overcome ; and that is, that the body should be taken in the coffin privately to some churchyard, and so left as to be found ; and if no one come forward to claim it, and no witnesses attended, an inquest would would take place, and a verdict returned of " Found dead, apparently from an injury of the abdomen, the body of a man unknown." After which the order for burial would be issued, and the father might then step im, claim the body, and inter it where he pleased. Such a resort (were it avail able—which we doubt in the advanced state of the case) would probably, however, be as repulsive to the relatives of the de ceased as the painful position in which they are now placed. NEW LANDING STAGE AT THE EGREMONT SLIP.—We are glad to say that a large new landing slip is about to be placed on the Seacombe and Egreinont slip, on an improved plan, by which the river steamers, as well as others of a larger size, may at all times—even at low water—securely land or embark passengers and carriages —a desideratum of great importance to the public, and the want of which has long been severely felt. The slip is now undergoing altera tions for the purpose of receiving the stage, and the stone work, under the able management of Mr. Tomkinson, is al ready in rapid progress. The greater part of the upper layer of stones on the slip had to be removed, and will be replaced by others of a large size, put together in a manner to resist the heaviest seaway that can assail them, and forming a rather more gently inclined plane than the former one. The breadth of the slip will be 15 feet. A handsome stage of about 75 feet in length and 12 feet wide, fenced at each side by three rows of chains supported on ir on upr i ghts will run down the in clined plane, and by means of a tratnroad laid on the strand, extend about (O feet into the river, beyond the sea-wall, meeting, at low water, a large landing vessel, designed and built for the purpose, and alongside of which the steamers may securely make fast, so that the inconvenience to passengers of stepping across a number of vessels, as hitherto, at such times of the tide, will be obviated. The carriage or stage will run on four handsome iron wheels, the outer ones being larger than those at the top, by which the surface will be nearly level. This large stage will be worked by chains and machinery adequate to move it readily out or in, as occasions may require. The immense framework erected over the side, by Mr. Tomkinson, and which has excited so much public curiosity, is admirably contrived for the removal of the large stones to be taken up, and the replacing of the newly prepared blocks—to form the superstructure of the new ship. By means of powerful winches fixed in framework of great span, strengthened on the tension principle by chains and iron rods, and moveable both lon g itudinally and trans verse l y on railways laid on the upper beams, the tackle may be lowered perpendicularly to any required point; and stones of several tons in weight may be raised or deposited by the exertions of a few men only. This is an improvement in heavy mural architecture which was unknown to our an cestors, and enables the workmen, without danger to them selves, to complete in weeks what they could not otherwise accomplish in years. We heartily congratulate our towns men, and more especially our fair tovvnswotnen, on the erection of this landing-place, which, without in the slightest degree disturbing the course of the river, and thereby form ing sand-banks—an evil inseparable from all permanent stone piers forming projections—will enable them to embark or land comfortable and dry at times when they would scarcely venture to encounter the inconvenience and danger at our ordinary pier-head and steps—where one must follow the other like a flock of sheep through a gap. The whole will probably be completed, and opened for public use, in about two months.. We entertain no doubt of the practical utility of the new landing sta g e ; and strongly recommen d t o the Corporation and Dock Trustees the construction, as ed as possible, of si m il ar stages for the other passenger and carriage slips—particularly the slip at George's-pier, where landing is often difficult and hazardous, and not un frequently impossible.