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fttraturr. POETRY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND 'From the Dublin Statesman and Record God help thee. Church a In this thy time of nee God be In this th A present help For foes are ores g rmtid the But they who hear th Do work the deepest moron Thoo'st been a champion for the truth, And wielded well the sword. Nor bast thy arm lost his strength To battle for the Lord. No, there are hearts within thee Hearts that care not ti The truth they loy in their blood Thy Ridleys. Cranmers, Latimer', In spirit live again; Yea. hosts of living saints bast thou Like to those martyred men. .. ,ra in thy walls Who give thee secret thrust, Who neath the robe of holy truth Betray their sacred trust. God help thee, Church of England, Thou art in dang'rons straits And foemen the pressing hard , Gainst thy beleaguered gates But O' may stre Amid the battle's d e given thee To stand upon thy watch and guard treachery within ish thy armour, make it bright, Plt on the helm and shield, And fear not now t two-edged sword On right and left to wield. Just to thyself and to thy God, Fight manfully and true. And lie. tho' earth and hell combine, Shall bring thee victor through. The prayer of faith is on thy side. Unshaken trust in heaven, And hearts that spurn the Romish chains By their forefathers riven : Thou standest on the word of truth. The sure foundation stone. Thy faith—'tis to he justified By Christ and Christ alone. Fear not, old Church of England, Thou shalt securely stand, When God has swept thy enemies Like locusts from the land. The hoary walls cemented strong ed towers to heaven With blood of martyrs slain Shall lift their hall While Engla d shall remain SELECTIONS THE WARS OF NAPOLEON.—From a rough calculation, taken from the returns of those left dead on the fields of battle in which Napoleon commanded, from Montenotte to Waterloo, we make the amount 1,811,500; and if we add those who died subsequently of their wounds in the petty skirmishes, the losses in which are not reported, and in the naval fights of which, though Napoleon was not present, he was the cause, 2,000,000 will he far under the mark. A picture of the fathers, mothers, wives, children, and relatives of these victims receiving the news of their deaths, would give a lively idea of the benefits conferred upon the world by Napoleon.—Blackwood's Magazine. THE FACTORY SYSTEM OF ENGLAND.-It seems to be settled amongst observant and intelligent men of all par ties, that one of the most important questionb in our do ovhieh a minister can devote his at condition of society in the manu- Within the past half cen- mestic governmen tention, is the factoring distr tnry, an entirely new element in our social•economy—a kind of imperium in imperio, independent of the general laws which govern societ-r, and out of its own sponta neously-created necessities calling for special rules and special remedies—has presented itself. The anomaly of the factory system is, that contemporaneously with its growth, no salutary power of check and control has sprung up, the consequence being, that whilst the whole has be come vast by constant accumulation, it has also become intractable and dangerous. Rudi sindiyestique moles, it is politically powerful without being constitutionally sound, a treacherous volcanic mountain, ever trembling with the workings of intestinal mischief, rather than a na- tural bulwark, promising security and ensuring peace—an impending peril rather than an enduring strength to the nation of whose social structure it has become a part.— Dublin University Magazine. DESCRIPTTON OF SIIEZ.—Suez is not very inviting at the distance of three miles from the shore, where large vessels usually anchor. It gains nothing as you approach in a boat rowed and tracked by swarthy Arabs, and when you get fairly within its walls, you are satisfied that its ex terior has not deceived you. Every thing, excepting the court-yard of the Caravanserai, which does duty for a cus tom-house, and contains numerous bales of silks, drugs, grain, &c.—denotes poverty and wretchedness. The houses, built of rough-hewn lumps of rocks cemented by mud, or a clay composed of sand, water, and coarse lime, have a dun-coloured exterior, in capital keeping with the dirty faces of the people and the soil on which the town is built. Still, there is enough in Suez to interest, at the first view, a traveller who has never before beheld a purely Mahomedan town. The place is thickly inhabited by Arabs, Egyptians, Copts, and a few Turks. Caravans of camels, which have just arrived, laden with merchandise from Cairo, or awaiting, recumbent, their loads of wealth from the further East; mules and donkeys saddled for travellers; an occasional horse covered with gay trap pings ; the long, dark bazaar and the lofty minaret ; the 'veiled and masked female, and the swarthy, bearded male, present a picture perfectly new even to the eye of an Englishman fresh from India, and attest the character of the land.—Overland Trips, in the Asiatic Journal. AN EGYPTIAN WIFE.—Poor Fatima! shrined as she was in the palace of a tyrant, the fame of her beauty stole abroad through Cairo. She was one amongst a hundred in the harem of Abbas Pasha, a man stained with every foul and loathesome vice; and who can wonder, though tened to a daring young Al ) obtain but a sight of her ; r not none can ever know, but the arnaut's arms as he leapt nd vanished in the dark )llowing night a merry Engl sh party dined rd Lord E-'s boat, as it lay moored off many may condemn banian, who risked whether she did list( from E together on the isle of I the calm ii a ; conversation had sank into silence, as t came on—a faint breeze floated from the rdens, once t star-lit perfumes and scarcel moved the clouds that rose from the chibouque peace and tranquillity, i figures, among which arm the arches of the palace; the water rns Lt paused under the bank where gloomily along—for a moment amongst that boat's dark crew a white figure a faint sr the river flowed on as merrily as if poor Fatima still sang her Georgian song to the murmur of its waters.—Dublin University Magazine. DESCRIPTION OF CAlRO.—After the desert—the sce nery of which may be described as a dreary flat, only di versified by sand-hills, stones, rat-holes, camel skeletons, and two trees—the view of Cairn, the " City of the Tombs." The Nile meandering 'emery pleasing corn or rich pasture land—the white sails iding on the river's bosom—the foliage of he suburbs of the town—the mosques and laces, and the distant, though apparently raids—form a picture grateful to the eye. of the h the lens in Minarets, t proam and ag at the " Great Eastern Hotel," the head-quarters of the Egyptian Transit Company, who own the vans, horses, and boats which transport passengers to and from Suez and Alexandria. Two-third t the passengers remained .taking themselves to Co- The Litter is on every ac ,ure travellers. The rooms s—the table is more sump attendance infinitely better. The ;regate, the same at both hotels. liastre is 21d.) per diem, include Inner, tea, and bed, with café noir les are charged ten piastres, and 0 are incltided in the bill for por e good in their kind, and not very at this hotel, the remainder b lombe's Hotel de I'Europe. count to be preferred by fu are cleaner and more spaciou in the aggi breakfast, lunc in the morning five piastres (E and most commonly drank, costs fifteen piastres per bottle, claret thirty piastres, champagne fifty piastres : bottled ale (Bass's and Hodg tres the bottle.—Overland Trips, terage. expensi The wines al . Marsala, t ... _ . son's) is drank at ten pias in the Asiatic Journal. Tax Boox of COMMON PRAYER.—We have all felt the charm of visiting our old halls and battle-fields, the homes of our poets and philosophers, the scenes of valour and the haunts of genius. The humblest stranger feels some indistinct delight—some quickening of the pulse— in the contemplation of ground thus consecrated and en deared. But of the millions of educated persona who upon every returning Sunday at least turn over the leaves of their Prayer-books, how few remember or appreciate the solemn beauty of association which our incomparable Liturgy ought to awaken in every thoughtful bosom I Yet surely it cannot fail to bring a sweet and consolatory reflection to know that our ritual of prayer and thanks giving is built up, so to speak, from the hallowed ruins of the primitive ceremonial ; that the costly materials of our own courts of gratitude, and supplication, and praise have been chiefly taken from the dilipidated fabric of the church. Chrysostom. and Basil, and Gregory, look out from each opening page. And, of a certainty, we shall contemplate the spiritual splendour of our church's de corations with a more tender and affectionate eye when we remember that many of those thoughts which shine like precious stones—pearls of great price —upon the walls and gates of her sanctuary, shone with the same lustre upon the inward eyes of the Christians of the first century. When we recollect that in spirit and in truth the petitions which we breathe, and the lessons which we read, and the hymns which we sing, were breathed, and read, and sung, by our ancestors in the faith sixteen hundred years ago ; and that the dying prayer of the mar tyr Polycarp, " For this, and for all things, I praise thee, I bless thee, I glorify thee, together with Jesus Christ, eternal in the heaven, thy beloved son, with whom to Thee and the Holy Spirit be glory now and for future ages;" that this exulting declaration of gratitude and faith may have been a passage in the service of the primi tive church and familiar to the expiring saint. Nor should we forget the affecting simplicity of the name by which the Prayer-book is recommended to the love and veneration of all who receive it. It speaks in the same voice of In% e -5 , ..t and • he print% to the peasant, and ra ng the Book of Common Praver.—Fra- ier's Magazine fol; October achs saw the glitter of t terrace into the Nile THE MENAGERIE AT SCHOENBRUNN. NEAR VIENNA —OF all the imprisoned animals no make ao nielatscho!y an impression as tt have had their prison-house arrange( according to their natural propen,ities with iron crating, is a fitter den Cu- a lion or t*,, r the rock-throned eagle's nest. In this narrow dungeon they cannot even stretch their pinions, and yet tips mo tiou is no doubt as much a necessity to them as it is to man to stretch his arms and legs after long continuance in a sitting or lying posture ; indeed it is evident, front the custom all imprisoned birds have of spreading their wings slowly and yawningly from time to time, The eagle and vulture sit upon their perches as motion! ss as if they were mere stones. One whom I was watching held his head on one side and his eyes immoveably fixed on the skies; another uttered a melancholy sound at intervals, and lifted his useless wing. Some of them are extremely old. I was told that one had been fifty years a prisoner. In fifty years, if we assume that, one way or another, an eagle can fly thirty miles a day, he might have traversed 590.000 miles; that is, he might have encompassed the earth a hundred times. Good heaven! what a fearful destiny to feel this power within, and be condemned for ever to one narrow, dirty, stinking hole! As the eagles are neither cheerful here, nor display their natural pecu larities in any way, they can yield neither pleasure to the lover of nature, nor profit to the inquirer into ber mysteries; and people would do much better, 1 am al most inclined to think, to free them at once from the burden of life, and place them stuffed in a museum.— Kohl's Austria. in some r A wooden cage, r than LABOURERS' A LLOTMENTS.—At a great agricultural meeting, at Lichfield, on Tuesday week, Sir Robert Peel thus expressed himself on this subject:—" The question was agitated last Session, with reference to the policy of allotments to farm labourers, and much important evi dence was taken upon the subject, before a Committee of the House of Commons. I have read that evidence, and the impression on my mind, whether in a political or moral point of view, is in favour of allotting to the re spectable labourer on a farm such a small portion of land as would afford occupation to the vacant hours of himself and family, and give him an interest in the soil in com mon with the great proprietor."—On the Question of whether it was not an essential policy in landowners to secure better farming in their tenantry, by granting more extended terms, the Right Hon. Baronet said, that, on his own property all tenancies were from year to year only, according to the custom of that part of the country ; but he gave notice, that he would be prepared to meet any tenants of his who might consider that they should feel it would conduce to their greater self-respect and satis faction to hold longer leases, and who was not at all pre pared to say he would withold such leases after so conferring with the parties. " Gentlemen," said the right Hon. Baronet, " I know nothing in English Society that pre sents a prospect more gratifying than a rural district well cultivated, in which subsist relations of mutual confi dence between the landed proprietor and the occupying tenant; and, let me add, the farm-labourer. Politics. gentlemen, that is to say, politics that in anyway partake of a party character, are wisely excluded from our pro ceedings ; but it would be absurd to exclude that great and comprehen:ive policy which must see in the success of British agriculture one of the great foundations of na tionai strength and national prosperity." LIFE IN THE H A nitm.-The . EaS'tern woman seems as happy in her lot as her European sister, notwithstand ing the plurality of wives in which her lord indulges or ventures upon. In her " public opinion's law" there is no more disparagement in occupying the second place as a wife, than there is in Europe as a daughter. The man ners of the patriarchal ages remain in Egypt as unchanged as its monuments ; and the people of Cairo no more think of objecting to a man's marrying a second wife, than those of Memphis thought of questioning the legitimacy of Joseph. The Koran, following the example of the Jewish doctors, only allows four wives to each Musseltnan, and they seldom avail themselves even of this limited allow ance to its fullest extent. Some hareems contain two hundred females, including wives, mother in-law, concu bines, and the various slaves belonging to each. These feminine barracks, however, seem very different from what such establishments would be in Europe. In the hareem there is as much order and decorum as in an English qua ker's home. It is guarded as the tiger guards his voting ; but its inmates consider this as a compliment, and - fancy themselves neglected if not closely watched. This cause for complaint seldom occurs, for the Egyptian has no blind confidence in the strength of woman's character or woman's love : he considers it safer, if not more glorious, to keep her out of the reach of temptation, than to run the chance of her overcoming it. Born and brought up in the hareem, women never seem to pine at its imprison ment: like cage-born birds, they sing among their bars, and discover in their aviaries a thousand little pleasures invisible to eyes that have a wider range. There are no literary ladies: knowing not the thoughts of others, they associ to the more with their own ; and who can tell what wild and beautiful regions of imagination their minds may wander through, unimprisoned, if undirected by educa tion. To them, in their calm seclusion, the strifes of the battling world come softened and almost hushed ; they only hear the far-off murmur of life's stormy sea, and if their human lot dooms them to their cares, they are as transient as those of childhood.—Dublin University Ma gazine. _ _ _ - - ENGLISH AND COSSACK HORSES.—A wager was laid by Mr. Gibson, the English Consul, that two English horses would beat any two Cossack horses which could be selected, at a rice of 50 versts, or upwards of 33 Eng lish miles. This took place long after the Cossack horses had been improved by the admixture of English and Ara bian blood, and Mr. Gibson had no particular horses in his view. He commissioned a friend to send two hunters for the purpose. Two tolerably well bred, but at that date naturally not thorough-bred, hunters were sent out to him, whilst the Russians selected out of some 50,000 of the best horses in the Cossack country. The race took place in the presence of the Emperor Alexander; regi ments of Cossacks were dispersed along the line to keep it clear, thousands of pounds were betted on the issue of the match, and an immense concourse of people assem bled to witness it. It commenced under these disadvan tages for the Englishmen—firstly, that they had grown men to ride, whilst the Cossack horses were ridden at feather we; ,- ht ; and, secondly. that one of the two Eng lish horses 'fell dead lame at starting. The other, at the half-way station, arrived whilst the two Cossacks were far out of sight, and being full of contempt for his an!l- gonists, he dismnunted, bah to refresh himself and his steed ; meanwhile the Cossacks came up and passed on wards. Now, it happened that one of the Counts Orloff, commander of the Cossack horsemen stationed to keep the line, was deeply interested in the issue of the race, and, by a very ingenious if not a very creditable piece of jockeyship, he had contrived to be made acquainted at every instant with its progress. For this purpose the Cossacks had private orders, whenever the Russians were ahead to hold their lance perpendicular, when the Endish were foremost to drop them horizontally. As the horse men were in sight of each other, this signal was in a few lish horse bad stopped, the lances, after being constantly down, were suddenly raised up, and Orloff, imagining that now the bottom of the Cossacks was beginning to tell, made sure of victory, and betted another: 100,000 rubles on the event; but, alas! he was caught in his own trap, the lances went up again, the English horse came in at last, in miserable plight it is true, but the Cossack horses never came in at all, either dying or being obliged to be killed where they had fallen.—New Mont hip Magazine. MR. GRATTAN'S CHARACTER OF DANIEL O'CON NELL IN 1815.—" Examine their leader, Mr. O'Connell —he assumes a right to direct the Catholics of Ireland — he advises—he harangues—and he excites ; he does not attempt to allay the passions of a warm and jealous peo ple. Full of inflammatory matter, his declamations breathed everything but harmony, venting against Great Britain the most disgnsting calumny, falsehoods, and ritian as the most stupid, the most dishonest, and the most besotted nation that ever existed ; that Ireland could not confide in the promises of England, &c. With out discrimination he pronounced all Protestants ' bigots.' When he advocated the grievances of the Catholic body, he omitted the greatest greviance—himself I A man that could make the speeches he has made, utter the senti ments he has uttered, abuse the characters he has abused, praise the characters that he has praised, violate the pro mises that he has violated, propose such votes and snch censures as he has proposed—can have little regard for private honour or for public character; be cannot com prehend the spirit of liberty, and he is not fitted to re ceive it. He betrays such a scattered understanding and barbarous mind, that if he got liberty he would immedi ately lose it. Almost unsuited for the British constitu tion, and almost ignorant of the bonds of civil society, of such a mould, and such a disposition, as to be incapa ble of accomplishing any rational object, his declamations to the lower orders are full of extravagance, wildness and ambiguity, and set afloat the bad passions of the people, make them restless in disposition, and impatient in action. He leaves a vacuum in the meaning of his harangue, to be filled up by the elevated imagination of a warm-hearted and sensible people. It is the part of a bad man to make use of grievances as instruments of power, and render them the means of discontent without a single honest attempt at redress. He knows, or at least he ought to know, that this conduct is of such a nature as must al ways tend to confusion in bad ministers, and strengthen their authority ; it seduces people into mischief not inten ded, and, after exciting them to folly, it abandons them through fear. It may lead them to rise against an ex ciseman or titheman, to burn a hayrick, or murder a farmer, but will never teach them to redress greivances, or to bring the offending minister to the scaffold. This leader in spirit is poor, his courage is of a hesitating quality, his political confidence is prodigious also; in de bate be is more than a hero; in every sentence there is a challenge ; in the field he is a diplomatic. He was insult ed, and did not fight ; again insulted, he was goaded to the ground, where his antagonist Rodergo fell. He then offered an insult, was noticed by the condescending spirit of an imprudent minister, was challenged, travelled 400 miles incognito, was arrested through an unforeseen acci dent ; did not go to the ground, being prevented by an unavoidable necessity. His speaking is extravagnt dic tion—a vulgar boast, a swaggering sentence, affected bombast, and ludicrous composition. Hls liberty is not liberal, his politics are not reason, his reading is not learn ing, his learning is not knowledge; his rhetoric is a gaudy hyperbole, garnished with faded flowers, such as a drab bled girl would pick up in Covent-garden, stuck in with the taste of a kitchenmaid. H e ma k es po li t i cs a t ra d e t o serve his desperate and interested purpose. This man can bring about nothi ng goo d ; i n a b ort i on h e i s the most fertile ; the womb of his mind is of such sinful mould that it can never produce anything that is not deformed. He never succeeded in any project except the loss of your question. He barks and barks, and, even when the filthy slaverer has exhausted its poison, and returns to its ken- nel, it there still barks and howls within unseen. No ad ministration hut would injure their reputation by advan cing such a character." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE PC 3R AND THE NEW POOR LAW (From the Times.) irrespectively of the Poor L w and its collateral questions, must ever excite the attention of thinking men. Above it should he in London, where the condition of the poor is must strikingly appalling. It appears from the report of the proceedings at Marl borough-street Police-office, in our columns of yesterday, that there is an average number of 50 human beings, of all ages, who huddle together in the parks every night, having no other shelter than what is supplied by the trees and hollows of the embankment. Of these the maj , rity are young girls, who have been seduced from the country by the soldiers, and turned loose on the world in all the destitution of friendless penury, and all the recklessness of early vice. This is truly horrible. Poor there must be everywhere. Indigence will find its way and set up its hideous state in the heart of a great and luxurious city. Amid the thou sand narrow lanes and by-streets of a populous metro polis there must always, we fear, be much suffering— much that offends the eye—much that lurks unseen. But that within the precincts of wealth, gaiety, and fashion, nigh the regal grandeur of St. James's, close on the palatial splendour of Bayswater, on the confines of the old and the new aristocratic quarters, in a district where the cautious refinement of modern design has ab stained from erecting one single tenement for poverty; which seems, as it were, dedicated to the exclusive en joyments of wealth,—that there want, famine, and dis ease, and vice should stalk in all their kindred horrors, consuming body by body, and soul by soul ! It is, indeed, a monstrous state of things. Enjoyment the most absolute, that bodily ease, intellectual excite men, or the more innocent pleasures of sense can supply to man's craving, brought in close contact with the most unmitigated misery ! Wealth from its bright saloons laughing—an insolently heedless laugh, at the unknown wounds of want! Pleasure, cruelly but unconsciously mocking the the pain that moans below i All contrary things jostling one another—all contrary, save the vice which tempts and the vice which is tempted I It is a sickening theme. It brings home to the heart the utter weakness—the utter hardness of our nature. There is wealth, there is skill, there is art, there is science, there is theory,—all these enough, and more than enough, in England. Most abundant are they in the heart of England. Yet does the life blood rush in a more healthy stream ? Does the pulse of the nation beat with a more generous rapture? Whom bath its wealth made happier ? Whom has its skill taught to shun the moral pestilence that consumes its tens of thousands? Whom has its theory taught the high and paramount duty which man owes to the infirmities of his brother man ? There are men of many theories abroad. Some would build in the human race within parallelograms, and bid them go and practise virtue intuitively. Others would amputate tariffs and navigation laws, crying to all, the halt, and the blind, and the penniless, " Go trade, and be rich." Some there are who, believing that society is hollow, false, and tottering, would restore long-forgotten rules, and bring the vague and casual charity of men under the cognizance and direction of the church. But these men are laughed at by the age. For is not the age utili tarian, and therefore wise ? But let all men, whether of theory or of practice, re member this—that within the most courtly precincts of the richest city on God s earth there may be found, night after night, winter after winter, women—young in years —old in sin and suffering—outcasts from society—ROT- TlNG FROM FAMINE, FILTH AND DISEASE. Let them remember this, and learn not to theorize, but to act. God knows, there is much room for action now-a-days. To EMIGKANTS. — The Montreal Gazette, 22d of Au gust, notices a report published by a committee .of the Niagara District Council, which may prove of interest to persons intrnding to emigrate to British North America. The committee state that there are no labourers required in the district, but that one or two hundred male and fe male farm servants understanding agricultural work would find employment. They ^onsider that very faaourable opportunities are offered for the settlement of farmers bringing a capital of from £2OO to £5OO with them, but that a further importation of mere labour or skill, with out capital, would be injurious, and increase, not the means of employment, but the calls upon local charity. They attribute this state of things, so different to what prevails in Canada West generally, to local causes, namely, the very easy access to the district by river and canal n every direction, and the great works in progress in the district, which have attracted to it an undue proportion of the spare population. not only of British America, but of the United States, and to the unfitness of those who come to seek permanent settlement, for the agricultural tabours of the country, and their unwillingness to adapt themselves to its circumstances. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND Lois OF LIFE.—An out break of fire took place in St. Martin's-court, St. Mar tin's-lane, on Wednesday, which has proved destructive in its consequences and been attended with the loss of three lives. The premises were in the occupation of Mr. James Labram, a boot and shoemaker, occupying the houses Nos. 28 and 36. The first intimation of the fire was given by the police constable on duty, and a soldier who happened to be passing at the time, who both per ceived a very strong smell of burning. They had no sooner given the alarm than the inmates of Mr. Labram's house discovered that the back and lower part of the pre mises were in flames, and that all escape, except by the windows or roof, was cut off. Mr. Labram and his family escaped at the windows, and by scrambling along the leads. In the upper part of the house were Mr. and Mrs. Pollock, who, with their two children and Mrs. Pollock's brother; lodged on the second floor. As soon as they were made aware of their danger, Mr. Pollock and his brother-in-law got upon the roof, in order to ascertain the best means of effecting an escape with Mrs. Pollock and the children, but in the meantime the fire had made such rapid progress that the bed-room was already en veloped in the flames, and they could not get back ; al- though they were horrified by bearing the heart-rending screams of the Door mother and her children tor assistance, which it was impossible for them even to attempt to ren der without sharing their fate. Most of the property de stroyed was insured. MEETINGS OF DISTRESSED COLLIERS.-Yesterday week, there was a meeting of colliers and others at Moor Flat, St. Helen's, for the purpose of taking into consid eration the present state of the trade, and electing dele gates to the general meeting of colliers about to be held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The weather was extremely unfavourable to an open air weetine, but they were pre sent from 1500 to 2000 persons. The chair was taken, shortly after eleven o'clock. by Mr. Henry Tindal.—The first resolution was to the following effect :—" That it is the opinion of this meeting that the present rate of wages is not sufficient to maintain thecolliers and their families." It appears that the rate of wages in that district was only 2s. per day, for which the men had to work from twelve to fourteen hours a-day. The men, according to one of number of speeches were made, and the proceedings were arrested by a torrent of rain.—Upwards of one hundred of the delegates who had attended from various parts of Lancashire, and some few from Cheshire, adjourned, after the open air meeting, to the house of Mr. George Huyton, Bridge-street, to transact business and adopt measures for the carrying into effect the objects of the Miner's Association of Great Britain and Ireland. They sat during Monday afternoon and Tuesday forenoon. The subscriptions received from various delegates amounted to £96 18s. A delegate meeting was agreed to, and was held yesterday at Chorley. Another general meeting will be held on Monday next, in the open a'r, at Hurstbrook,near Ashton, when the election of delegates to attend the Neional Conference of colliers, at Newcas tle, on the 13th November, will take place. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER. DEE.—On Saturday boats. the Albert and the Britan- by some means broke loose, near the ship-yard at Chester, and the weather being tempestuous and a strong tide rolling against them, they began to lurch and fill with. water. There was on board of the Albert a family named Vaughan—consisting of the man, his wife, two children, and an infant—who, together with a young man, were washed into the river. The fearful cries of the agonised mother to save her babe, as she saw the helpless child floating down the tide, were heart-rending in the extreme. The captain of the Cestrian sloop, of Chester, with most praiseworthy and prompt alacrity, put out with his boat, and succeeded after some difficulty in rescuing the dis tracted woman from a watery grave. The others were, picked up by the boat of the Rose of June, which unfor tunately capsized, and again precipitated the hapless fa mily into the water. The elder son swam ashore with his younger brother in his arms, and then returned to attempt the rescue of his little sister ; but the tide was too strong for him, and the child was swept away down the river, nor has its body yet been found. The accident was said to have arisen from the gross and cruel conduct of the captain of a vessel called the Peggy, to which the flats were made fast, and who let go a rope which held the Albert, though requested, for God's sake, not to do so. This man was afterwards taken into custody, when the facts were stated before the magistrates; and the mariner, who gave his name as Owen Evans, was committed to take his trial on a charge of manslaughter. He was afterwards admitted to bail in a bond of £lOO, to appear at the next assizes. A W RONG PORT.—Last week a curious circumstance happened in Brigend, which created a good deal of alarm and excitement in the district of Perth, until the true state of the matter was discovered. A female servant in a respectable family in Brigend, after she was in bed on Thursday night, heard a noise in the coal cellar, which made her believe that some person was carrying the coals away ; but not wishing to disturb the family in case she might be mistaken, she determined not to say anything about it until the morning, and until she herself had ex amined the cellar to see if her suspicions were correct. Accordingly, about six o'clock, she got up and went into the cellar, when the first thing she came upon was a man's bonnet, on which were several spots of blood. Looking about a little further, she discovered a waistcoat, a pair of trousers, a jacket, a stocking, and a shoe ; several of these also marked with blood. She immediately alarmed the family, who, after examining carefully the various articles came to the conclusion that some foul play had been going on over night, and went and gave the necessary informa tion to the police. During the course of the day it ap peared that an individual, a sailor, belonging to that side of the water, hail got himself so many "sheets in the wind," that he had " luffed" too soon on his homeward bound tack, and struck into the wrong port (the cellar), where, no doubt, imagining all was right, he " hove to," cast off his habiliments, and stowed himself away among the coals. He had slept for some hours, and on awaken ing, it being still dark, which prevented him from finding his clothes, he boxed his way home as he stood. The poor fellow was very much cut—the effects of his uncamfort able berth—which accounts for blood upon the articles of dress.—Perthshire Courier. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS A meeting of the Council, both a special meeting of that body, and as an adjourned monthly, for the transac tion of the business lett undisposed of at the Council of the 4th instant, was held on Saturday. The Mayor took the chair soon after eleven o'clock, at which time there were thirty members present. ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN The Council proceeded to elect an Alderman for Ex change Ward in the room of Wm. Earle, Esq., resigned. Mr. ASPINALL proposed Mr. James Lawrence, and Mr. WooD seconded the motion. Mr. HODGSON said there was not a more staunch or sound member than Mr. Lawrence on all the great prin ciples that influenced the majority of the Council. Mr. SHEPPARD and Mr. SANDS expreseed their ap probation and that of their constituents of the proposition. The voting papers having been filled up and ban ded in, _ _ . . The MAYOR announced, that the following thirty-six members (all who were in the Council at the time) bad voted in favour of Mr. Lawrence—namely, Messrs. Toulmin, Griffith, Preston, Alderman Houghton, Plump ton, Crooke, Moon, R . gby, Thornhill, Kilshaw, Thomp son, George Hall Lawrence, Royden, H. Holmes, Copeland, Platt, Chilton, Molyneux, North. Bramley- Moore, Trotman, Shaw, Aspinall, J. Holmes, Procter, Cooper, Hodgson, Birkett, Sheppard, Parker, Brancker, Wood, Edwards, Bushell, Sands, and the Mayor. FIRE POLICE Au account of the Fire Police Department, signed by Capes Ashlin, was read, showing that the income for the past year had been £2,607 9s. 6d., and the expenditure £3,254 7s. 7d., leaving a deficiency of £646 18s. Id., which, according to the Act of Parliament, had been paid out of the borough fund. Mr. PROCTER proposed a rate of a half-penny in the pound. He entered into some explanations of the ac count, stating that in consequence of extraordinary ex penses for new engines, &c., the sum to the credit of the department in the borough fund would be reduced from £2.400 to £1,600. _ _ _ Mr. THORN HILL seconded the motion, which was car ried unanimously. ESTABLISHMENT OF A SAILORS' HOME. The MAYOR said the next subject on the paper was a motion of which notice had been given as follows, by Mr. Aikin :—" That it be referred to the Finance Committee to consider and report on the assistance that can be given by the Corporation to A Sailors' Home, by appropriation of land, or the use of a building, subject to resumption or otherwise." Prior to this motion being regularly brought before the Council, he begged to read a memorial from the shipmasters and seamen of the port, which had been adopted at a meeting held at the Queen's Theatre, on Wednesday evening last, and forwarded through the chairman, Mr. John Smith. The memorial was here read at length. It set forth the anxiety felt by the sailors to have a Sailor's Home, Registry-office, and Savings' Bank speedily established, and the grievance under which they laboured in having to pay, the masters 2s. and the seamen Is. per month, to the Merchant Seamen's Fund without being able to receive corresponding benefits. They stated that the fund now amounted to £50,000 in Liverpool alone, and that that sum was now lying idle ; and they concluded by praying that the mal-administration of the fund might be taken into serious consideration, and that a committee might be appointed to watch over their interests generally. Mr. WOOD contended, that the shipmasters and sea men were much mistaken if they supposed that the trust was improperly managed in Liverpool, inasmuch as the seamen of the port were better off than they were else where, and as there were two or three times the pensions given here which were given in any other town in Eng land. He believed that, to the administration of the fund, the most strict and constant attendance was given, and that, if a visit to the office were only paid, the mast satis factory account could be rendered. Mr. Horsfall was the President in Liverpool, and Mr. Sandbach the Vice-pre sident. The accounts were regularly published. The orphan children of a shipmaster received 3s. a week, and others were paid in proportion ; but, at the same time, it was undoubtedly true, that the Act of Parliament pre scribed that no man could become a pensioner on the funds unless he were twenty-one years on the books, and that his family could not receive any benefit unless, he happened to be killed, slain, or drowned. Sir T. BRANCKER expressed his belief that the council had not any jurisdiction over the seamen. Mr. ASPIN ALL thought that, if there were a surplus of £50,000 in Liverpool, it ought to be given to the poor men. Mr. HENRY HOLMES said that the interest was given, and that many widows were in the habit of receiving £4O and £5O each, according to the number of their children. Mr. Am): believed that the prayer of the memorial could not be granted, because the committee, even if they were appointed, could not exercise any control over the fund. He wished not to have the memorial mixed up with the motion of which he had given notice. Mr. BRAMLEY MOORE thought it, would he as well to suggest to the memorialists, that the Council was unable to do anything for them, and that the most proper course for them to pursue would be to apply to parliament. He believed that there were many very serious objections to the bill of which they complained, inasmuch as they were compelled to contribute to the funds without. in several instances, deriving any advantage. He understood that the new act upon the subject was a great improvement upon the old one, but that experience had shown, since it came into operation in 1825, that although it worked tolerably well, yet it pressed rather heavily upon the sailors. The MAYOR thought the subject very'important, and that, according to the memorial, there appeared to be great abuses pervading the system. One, for instance, was, that if a sailor died a natural death, his family could not receive any relief unless the man himself should have been twenty-one years on the books. Mr. AIKIN inquired whether the Mayor had not, at a previous meeting, presented a memorial to the Council, signed by 9,000 seamen of the port, in favour of the establishment of a Sailors' Home? The MAYOR replied in the affirmative : it had been signed by 9,402. Mr. Ktxix said, it would be his duty, before he re deemed his promise on this very important subject, to present another memorial to the Council, signed, he be lieved, by almost all the respectable mercantile men of Liverpool ; indeed, he was stronely of opinion, that no memorial had ever been presented to that, or any other great body, which contained a greater number of respect able signatures. The memorial was here opened by Mr. AIKIN, and by him and two or three other members conveyed to the Mayor. The document was several yards in length, had evidently been signed by some thousands, and owing to its unwieldy dimensions, attracted general attention, and also caused much amusement. The MAYOR read it at length. It stated, that several meetings of the memorialists had been held in an interval extending over the last four years, with the view of im proving the condition of sailors and securing to the ship owners a plan for the more efficient manning of their ships. The result was that they conceived a Sailors' Home should be provided, combined with a Registry and Savings' Bank, and that subscriptions had been obtained for this purpose to the extent of £2.000, sufficient to show the interest which had been excited, but not sufficient to carry out the object in view. Various circumstances had combined to impede the progress of that object ; but, recently, public attention had once more been particularly called to it by the complaints of the seamen themselves. In conclusion, the memorialists prayed the council to take the subject into serious consideration, and to grant a building for the purposes of a Sailors' Howe; Registry-office, and Savings' Bank. Mr. AIRIN then proceeded, at some length, to state the reasons which had induced him to submit the motion, of which he had given notice, and which had been previously read by the Mayor. He commenced by expressing a hope, founded on the memorial which had just been submitted, and which was signed by so many of the wealthy and re spectable classes, that, at last, they would be enabled to do something for a class of men for whom more might be done than almost for any other, and yet for whom so little had hitherto been attempted. He knew there was a feel ing afloat, and that it existed in the minds of some of his most intimate friends, that the nature of the profession of the sailor, added to his recklessness of conduct, rendered it an almost hopeless task on their part to attempt to re deem him. From that proposition he dissented altogether. He believed that sailors possessed feeling and desires si milar to those of every other class, and that if they saw an attempt made to redeem them from the position to which they were sunk, or to save them from the plunder to which they were exposed, their habits might be im proved as well as the habits of any other class in society. He then proceeded to state some of the wrongs and evils to which the sailor was exposed, the causes which had produced those evils, and the most effectual remedies which ought to be applied. He said it was matter of daily occurrence that, the moment a vessel reached the port of Liverpool, the sailor was besieged by a number of persons who paid their court to him, made promises, took him to a lodging-house, and, as his wages were due, gave him credit. He treated them in return, and in the warmth of his heart, perhaps spent more money than prudence would justify. This continued to go on for some time. Jack was in Elysium, with his smiling lass and flowing jug. But, after the lapse of a few days, when he received his wages, he generally found accounts pouring in upon him from the slopseller, the lodging-house keeper, and other parties, greater than he expected, and then he began to suspect those professions of regard which were showered on him upon his arrival. He then sallied forth into the street, met with a damsel who commisserated his position and denounced the base conduct of the vile and selfish creatures of whom he complained. He then went home with her, but he (Mr. Aiken) would not detail to the Council what passed there—(great laughter)—further than to say, that the unfortunate fellow, when he awoke in the morning, oftentimes discovered that he was not only pennyless, but that, in fact, he was without a rag to cover him, his money as well as his clothes having been abstracted. He (Mr. Aikin) knew an instance of a poor sailor who bad been left in this condition, and who, find ing that he had not a remnant to put on, absolutely took up the bed and bed-covering and sallied forth into the street, thus making a capture of the only things within his reacb. (Continued laughter.) In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, however, such instances of plunder never were heard of, for the poor fellow himself, being stripped of all he possessed, baying no means of redress, and not knowing where to apply for it, was obliged to fall hack on the people who first received him ; and they, in turn, commiserated his fate, got him to mortgage his exertions fora month, and either sold or transferred him to any master or sh.p they pleased. He vra. not a free agent under such circumstances ; be was unable to choo'e his captain, his ship, or his voyage; but I,e was obliged to go to any part of the world, no matter how dangerons the I voyage or fatal the climate, for the purpose of rettin(r, I clothes on his beck. These were tome of the evils to which the sailor was exposed. but there were a great many others, one of which was, that he was not only robled during his lifetime, but that he was robbed in anticipation of his death ; for the parties with whom he thus dealt either got him t make a will before he went, or made one for him in his a osence ; and then, the moment his death was announced, badministered to his effects, and robbed him again. The evils of which the shipowner and captain had to complain were very mach caused by the evils under which the sailor himself suffered ; for Jack was not a reasoning animal • he felt that the world had plundered him, and he sallied forth on the first opportunity for the p rpose of revenging himself by plundering the public. Hence he deserted a ship when he reached a foreign port and could obtain a higher rate of wages, and in this man ner broke the agreement upon which he had originally set out. But, another great evil was, that a captain never knew. until be got to sea, whether he had got sailors or lubbers on board ; and the misfortune was, that the law afforded the captain no relief in such a case, when he found himself in the middle of a dan gerous channel, without having, perhaps, a sufficient number of hands on board to navigate the ship. (Hear.) He (Mr. A.) had paid a great deal of attention to this subject, in common with many others, and, without go ing to the length of saying that his remedy would enable the sailors to jump from vice to virtue, he nevertheless believed that the foundation could be laid for a gradual improvement. (Hear, hear.) He concluded with the motion of which he had given notice. Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE seconded the motion. He con tended that there was no class of men in England more deserving of our sympathy than the merchant seamen ; and that there was no other body to whom the nation owed a deeper debt of gratitude, not excepting the navy, notwithstanding the brilliant achievements of the latter in every quarter of the globe. He dissented from those who alleged that sailors could not be tamed. If they had found a Van Amburgh to tame the lions, he believed that if they succeeded in getting sailors into the prepared building, they could not only tame, but reform them. From the year 1835 to 1841 no fewer than 13,000 sailors had been boarded and lodged in the London establish ment • while. in the course of one year. the large sum of £23,000 had been paid into the same establishment. He then referred to the manner in which Greenwich Hospital had been supported for a number of years by the contri butions of merchant seamen, without any of them having been ever known to be pensioned there ; after which he alluded to the debt of gratitude which the town of Liver pool in particular owed to this deserving class of men. He said that England had given the sum of twenty mil lions towards the emancipation of the negroes. and yet that during the late fire at Kingston the blacks looked on with apathy, and refused to render any assistance. This, he observed, was the gratitude which England had re ceived from these worthless beings, while, if the same amount of money had been expended on the reclamation of the British sailors, the latter would not only have been thankful for the boon, but many of them would have been saved from ruin here, and ushered into a happy eternity hereafter. (Hear.) Mr. EVANS suggested to Mr. Aikin and those who acted with him the propriety of prevailing on the ship owners, as they cleared their ships, to give a halfpenny a ton towards the accomplishment of the object in view. So far as he was himself interested in shipping he would be willing to contribute in such a manner. Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE assured the Council, that the Finance Committee would willingly undertake the duty which the motion, if carried, would impose upon them ; but, still, be thought it would be too hard to ask the Cor poration to put its hand into its pocket and hear the ex pense of the proposed scheme, while memorialists, by pay ing the tax suggested by Mr. Evans, or by putting a sum of £5 or £lO opposite their respective names, could ma terially assist the object in view, and render the institution prosperous. (Hear.) Mr. Aikin had said that his proposal would not render necessary any demand upon the borough fund; but, if they were to give up the building, which afforded a residence to Mr. Whitty, they would have to find another residence, and to bear the contingent ex penses, which would involve an outlay of £lOO a year at least. This, however, would he an expense which the Corporation would not oppose if they saw the good Mr. Aikin anticipated likely to be realized. He maintained, that a great improvement had taken place amongst sailors in late years, and that the establishment of shipping offices had effected a great improvement when compared with the system which had previously existed. He concluded by expressing his willingness to forward the object in view. Mr. BUSHELL could not exactly agree with Mr. Law rence. He thought the Corporation ought to become the originators of such a scheme as the present, and that they were bound to set the example to the town, and to give funds in order to form a nucleus, around which others might exhibit a disposition to carry out so desirable an ob-. ject, _ Mr. PARKER thought it might be necessary fora " little mind" on rising, to make some apology, particularly when he meant to strip the discussion of some of the gaudy at tire in which it had been covered by preceding speakers. He looked upon the sailors as highly respectable and wor thy of their situation. (A laugh.) There was no class he felt more for. But the Council were assembled, not for the purpose of upholding the interests of the sailors in par ticular, but those of the community at large with which they were connected. They had the poor porters at the docks for instance, who did not earn ss. a week on an average, while the sailor received his £2 a month, and got plenty of employment and good food. _ Mr. BLACKBURN lauded the exertions of the Seamen's Friend Society, and referred to its advantages to the maritime interest of the port, coupled as those advan tages had been with the prevailing spread of temperance and total abstinence among the sailors themselves. He had been told that it was the intention of the parties who sought for the institution in question to have a chaplain, perhaps a paid chaplain, but a chaplain at all events. He quite agreed that religious instruction ought to be pro vided ; but, then, the subject was surrounded with diffi culties, for who was the the chaplain to .be? Mr. BIRKFTT : A clergyman of the Church of England. Mr. BLACKBURN contended, that, if they only appoint ed one clergyman for one denomination, they would be guilty of a violation of the plain and obvioui meaning of the Municipal Corporations Act, and the borough fund should never be appropriated for anything of an exclusive character. Mr. BIRKETT regretted that Mr. Blackburn had intro duced a subject which, as a matter of course, must create contention. He believed that public worship was gener ally conducted on hoard vessels, at present, on the Sab bath day, although the reverse was the case when he was a boy ; and he thought that much more might be done for the sailors if the shipowners took pains to ascertain the cha racters of the captains. He held it be for the general advantage that the people should be instructed in the doctrines of the Chnrch of England, believing, as he did, that the Church of England taught the way of God in truth • that every man who taught the principles of the Establishment did his duty to the country and the town ; and that those wbo taught dissent were, in proportion, enemies to the country and the town.—(Laughter.) He did not make this remark with any feeling of disrespect towards Mr. Blackburn; but lie certainly thought, that, when a man was brought up to the established religion, he was sure not to be a Radical ; and they all knew, that to be a Radical was to be a discontented, unhappy being. —(Great Laughter.) Mr. itiODGEMN thought, that, if the captains and mer chants had done their duty, the sailors would not have been in their present lamentable position. He contended, that, in the important matter of religious truth, the ma jority of the council should pursue one plan only, and that they, in this Protestant country, could not unite in that mixture, that olla Podridda, which some would have them to support. Upon the religious side of the question he should vote in favour of the principles of the Church of England. He concluded by expressing his regret at their having got into any personality on that occasion, the more particularly as there did not appear to be any occasion whatever for it. Mr. AIKIN briefly replied, after which the motion was unanimously agreed to. - PORTRAIT OF MR. RATHBONE The MAYOR announced, that the last subject on the paper was a letter from Thomas Booth, Esq., proposing that a portrait of William Rathbone, Esq., should be re ceived by the council for the council-chamber. He said he should like to receive the instructions of the council as to the reply he was to make to the letter, which had stood over now for some time and also as to the course that was to be followed. (A pause.) Mr. HORNBY, as the mover of the reception of the pic ture in the first instance, said he had no authority what ever to withdraw the offer, as it had not been made by him, or any one in connexion with him. He should de cline to take any further part in the business, except to state, that he had done all he could, but ineffectually, to induce the parties to withdraw the offer. He thought the council had better avoid discussion and proceed at once to the vote. Mr. ATKIN proceeded to remark on the general praise bestowed upon Mr. Rathbone, by both parties as well as by the tory press, for his impartiality and ability when acting as chief magistrate of the town, and said that it was in consequence of such public expressions of approbation that a number of the members of the council were induced to subscribe for his portrait, and to present it to the coun cil_at the present time. _ _ Mr. BLACKBURN suggested that they proceed at once to the vote ; and moved that Mr. Booth's offer be accepted, and that the painting be placed in the Council-chamber. Mr. HODGSON objected to the Council being tongue tied by any member. There had been a great deal of skill in the mode of bringing the subject forward ; and if the picture itself was not a work of art, the manner of offering it was very artful. (A laugh.) Divesting the proposition of all attempts to deceive, it was impossible not to view it as a party proceeding. They were called upon most especially to consider the political character of Mr. Rath bone, and not his gentlemanly conduct whilst filling the civic chair. He had been elected Mayor of the borough solely because of his political opinions being in accordance with those of the majority of that day ; and how could the Council, constituted as it was at present, receive his picture, when he had himself tried constituencies out of doors who would not have him ? The Council would be quailing in the performance of their duty if they com mended Mr. Rathbone in his public capacity. They were a political body, and could never exist without acting in and for a party. What evidence was there that the liberal party, when in the majority, would have accepted of the portrait of one of their opponents ? On the contrary, had they not filled all their offices with persons representing their own political views ? and had they not displaced Mr. Case's picture in order to have Mr. Currie's in the beat light ? (A laugh.) He thought the discussion on this subject would give increased strength to the tory party at the ensuing election ; and he concluded by moving, as an amendment, that the Mayor acknowledge the reception of Mr. Booth's letter, and that the portrait be respectfully declined. Mr. PRIESTLEY seconded Mr. Blackburn's motion. Mr. ISAAC HOLMES referred to the time when some of the tory majority of the Council were excluded from the Oct. 17, IS-13. %"- t i A a ra u l g t . h o .) ver l t f he it committee, and then asked, what sort of p• ing gr. eia ßa rions would he likely to arise in his mind at see thbone's portrait placed over the tnantlepiecl• )%f. ,ii a were nt e pproposedeees of to r 1 .5 place il in's drawing-rooms, would they the °MT ? or. would Mr. Earle be likely to aeceP t ,; , s od portrait of Mr. David Hodgson ? (~ Hear , hear: amend, great laughter.) He concluded by seconding the be likely to , e f ' t 7, 11‘'aCkt.hurin'N'selaiende_PrViri , went. no M I? Mr. BIRKETT expressed his regret at having, u p no , , week '". 11 , information, accused Mr. Rathbone of being a eP he He had not been forty-eiht hours in to , in ."` ftat bbow he was asked, by several," Will you allow Mr. . • e tbf into the Council ; a man who wanted to disfrancnelsr„,4 whole body of the freemen ?" No, he would soon. D,:h, his band off at the elbow.first. (Great laughter.) Tye the ' conservatives out of doors would naturally tha n ; 0 tory majority in the Council were no better n the to se t if they admitted the portrait. H e should be la d to portrait of Mr. Aspinall over the mantlepiece , ag' , who had filled the civic chair for fifteen months.re, iota Mr. PARKER said the question was a WO' l' s ;Ohl he (Mr. Parker) had got pulled about in all PtT,, t ook town, by people asking him whether he wit Mr. Rathhone's picture into the council. t ._40•01 Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE would record his vo e 14 4 o il of the reception of the picture ; but that , etl,. RI, time, its rejection ought not to excite any surp;llo 0! believed the conservatives out of doors were 61 _ 3; bl O, s portri l it diP the subject of receiving Mr. Rathbone' whether he stood alone or not, he claimed the r i t e to 1 :/ f r ; 'rcising his own judgment. He would do hoti . o , ,, it o e , was going _ wished i e sh d e r d aw th in e g p - o r r o t o r m ai: Ch inning had that gentleman come to Englany„',,,eq,', only for what he had written on the subject of ic i‘ is . ei e l o 4 the Creole question ; and, if the portrait of 1%" . ..' t re c o were offered, it would not only be receive, °T en bat; gratefully, and placed not in the councbeele-eoriot"; Mr. SHEPPARD, on the part of North Tate' to 1 e amo ngstreje cted. ,a for t ill Mr. BLACKBURN briefly replied. The Council then divided, when there Wear" „beet' amendment 27 ; against it 18. ~ boo- LAO The amendment, the word " respectfullV hste,.-, first struck out, was accordingly declared t°1;sioo:„. carried. The following members voted in the don, lsv, Hod i. 01 , For the amendment,—Councillors D. Holmes, H. Copeland, J. Edwards, Ft' 13,,,' 13 d' dell, J. North, J. Aspinall, T. Toulmin, A . ji. ft i / A, Cooper, W. Birkett, C. Bushell, J. Procter, or rol e ;i1; J. Kilshaw , J. Parker, T. Brassey, G. Ll' n i " .- flor t ' v e gd Lace, S. L. Trot roan, J. Sheppard, end "'c r ook , 0 Aldermen R. Houghton , ' R G 'ffi h ll S ' n e"l° R. 11 t , • , __Coo tbe so vereions of t!,_l3 ow E. Molyneux. Against 1 the amendment, Plenty onitott. W. Thornhill, T. Blackburn, W. Preston, ton T. l', J. Aikin, J. Priestley, and J. Platt • Akler,retee,,,, Barclay, T. Bailey, J. H. Turner, 'W P• I. oa t ' Holt, J. Bramley-Moore, J. M F " El9°s' , Moon, Mayor. Cr ELECTION OF A COUNCILLOO'.,,fot 0, t h e electworenee b Mr. G. LAWRENCE asked when George Ward would be held, Mr. Jame s i ' s eel ing been elected an ald ) erman . . 0 pro bed a ho e ' ce" The TOWN-CLERK said the ward wo ul d t ee 11 Mr. I ' oPe r to a new election they accepted the office of alderman. The r c „ o to , belonged to the present burgess list. e" „., - bere e 'leg' which would take effect on the Ist of No°e""be t fiee .t Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE .— Then.there Meet roe r tions, one after th ce 0 e other. Leib ren c tiO The Towsr-ctgrtic.—Yes ; and Mr. s e' e declare his acceptance within five days e to the aldermansbip. •eloel‘' The Council adjourned at half -past two ° - Lira' iorz - Rl.l DISTRICT COURT OF BAl'*-- ---- ) • aer s ' (Before Mr. Commissioner PhilliPtis g ' girl nos j John Wesley Davis and Francis Davis. d% the ie , t beto surrendered to the Court, on Friday. t^ l a gai o :, 1 10 examinations. An opposition was in votoss',;st• on behalf of the creditors, for whom Mr,•„,being;9notiel solicitor. appeared, the bankrupts themse'"l e soe'ct °' ed by Mr. Frodsham. A lon and arialytieeh ob) o e f 16 6 took place, which lasted theg entire day' t a e nel gt heil iS which was to ascertain whether certsin to o br ot o ffer; amount of £270, said to be lost by one °„f„ t hi cl ee fp n oefr ec Liverpool, and for which a reward of X -4 ",,,0, ' . ed, were actually missing in the way de,er.cd„ ilooil! this, the bankrupts were separately e%Bo,''°'tbe ioa Or, Upon the examination of Francis Do' s ' iit tas te v yiii: i , evidence was elicited: that he never w,en i f 0 f fir ' Offi s ' ill sums of money by his brother to pay "" - ived 1e.P,,„ but that, some time in July, he had re, ce n ; to ' o ; brother a large sum of money, ,ent'°'' cil l ' ev ( I' ll° on' ite ce e Bank of England notes, but had never cou' in oso c e toTA' self. He had gone to his office on the etier;ifhl4c-;tot', his loss at eight o'clock, much earlier f loor o a i a the r A tee e but for no particular reason. This barihruPt:.,,aer,,ietit f• " be' iti that he missed the notes at the coiner 0 , d i et i) and that he had placed •h - ° °l" P° 115 them in tb Ora b. for • security. Had never even so small 8 o b it r t his posse-si S on before. f tbe lo ' - J. W. Davis stated that he first heard ° or piO hi ,P v o 9t f £270 at a quarter to nine the following ! D e to 1 ' 0 ,4 own office, and immediately caused a e° t ! l e pte,d % l ibel,' at Gore's advertising office, and had di' tri c uP - „tcf , h 6 of bills offering £2O reward for the re cos'! r i ;oliOod " questioned as to how he had lived since b' n s. a OP 'f,, h i replied that he had receive £7 only fror had pawned his clothes for d a subsistence. eitleOce. Several discrepancies occurred it, the o f o case was ultimately adjourned. :as° t oo ~,Aita• ~si.- co i RE THOMAS DOWN,••- he .- w ri , e li , Thji ins6lvent, who has carried on t ",bis ° 1/„' „ e a tailor and draper, in T. rleton-street, i", ;, t ioNt, l - v O l before the court to pass his first e xarn,; a r. I . itiooort opposed by a solicitor on behalf of a creu l f eve . Al(." ibe appeared to support him. The ground o bt bY.i tra it , d for vexatiously defending an action bro"g li e r fr „y; e t Mott, a portrait painter, for £2 s '' able 10 de c l P i lil costs of which action he had been un 3 w,,r io% 0;0 . 0 this forming an offence of a penal charee' in he the new act, he should press for any ess e i 'd tbe 0 0 .I. ii , view to the dismissal of the petition, h w ell' ) °Pesti be proved. The insolvent was allowed to ' , l i to tb e f oog ie , dule in regard to one point. With reO r i v def . e , 11° flit,, tion offered to the insolvent for vel ati( ;; LlS ti' is : 1 ° h r h !,1 action, the Commissioner did not thin..f. t he - ,, e ( ) '', e ..11 , : stance which came under the m eaning ° nir ia,e l l , - e ca : bic'' liament, as the insolvent, it appeared, C" i o o " ii t, ' ,i O O , a good and valid defence, and wirnes,es. 01 0 se of the ins .. tbe „, to give confirmation to the plea of t"-,i,tinVl3' le' was evidence of substantiality i n Iris r e ' h . ow - P e r , (P I The insolvent also had declared Oa, t , 1 1- v e rrid . ,beer the portrait was £2 Ils , which he i' a- t.' It t° - .0, 11) gation, therefore, of a vexatious defeece o'sooo The insolvent then, after the usual ioterr his first examination. his m fi r r . st E e v x h a Al ctl' ... t ag. rp etd„,i, ls3 , ambeonutt having£B Cl , This insolvent, who is stated to bib the d Lo u t t 0 ' loli racies of the parishes of Llanfachreth a r ., 3 , co°oofoe , ,the county of Merioneth, came before b " ) , Mr• i :der t io he part of a creditor. Mr Pa • e at'P ea• goa'' JO rlts' examination. nd drawn I t an l as tnt i a r to by n E e y d i h . ihtsil Bsisters GEORGEwpa:oost ip, r i ,Lpo,00:1_1:1_, I , : i . ere : pt i .i . , : e i : . 13:g 1 , 1 tot,it itd.,oes:o:r: . 0 ,, to -,,d s.t . 0 principal grounds: the first as having P , rs elf+ t hAt tit . time not having reasonable means of m e e t s e t he "the h an t the trial, it vexatiously at maturity ; the second ground o f obje",ght% froirdt n i td y owt d htrh e ii defended a n action, bro w bi e bV ( 10 0 , sing creditor, to recover the amount 0 1 d therons be party into whose hands it had fallen, a 0,,„ s ce 00% him) w rilt '''• los li t to the • original liability of some .C7O ID , th e r ed tet le total debt amount to £l5O. t ° ta re c° lo ell ' gone against bro r. ..,aret s t , Mr. PAYNE, on behalf of the insolven i o be cie rg) i i , several witnesses, amongst whom c" l. ,,nce t ° ,oe h ,o ol l however, by way of saving the time came forward to swear that then ccen ,- t s ou "oe ' o 4 be proved in the course of the •examM9 e coe ' el it 0 1 ' a th ja.,oiati ids 0 0 the receipt of about £l7O per moo ' f the t 1 0 £7O a year for the gradual liquidatioo 0 . _ po l io him. _in& o f 0 , ror , •,, no po uch °p the His HONOUR asked why was t' u- n o su" of p eti serted in the schedule? There was - ce e 00, 0 4 oo f there. colls eg he he'' t s e i n l e i g f fa liability t i , t t yhtehWaaitns, s osairE:ll: tetet:::::tit,031:50,1:::, Mr. PAYNE replied, that it was ' l li, enter, lii s 0 d speedy execution that followed that l'howevericalso,roit, the insolvent's notice. He hopeid: thi , es p e s c r ei i i i t,illi e b t il l would allow the insolvent to menu i rl d His HONOUR replied, that the sPe e Y act ° ..011' ePd e frar . 0 6 00 1 s O , no excuse; but, as this appeared a t' the I " tt ° d e ence, and being the first objection ° insol/le° had been before him, he would allow th e :. Os e nc e. 0 'of but he would have it go forth that tb" io dulg litiogot Mr. PAYNE stated that the•insolvent! to tile be pr o, been debt' sequestrated since 1839, for bog; or e. boun d to be considered a precedent for future_ t o _. 0 ,0 0, £350. the c s ' Ss t ll6 His HONOUR asked, if such were woe ~s t j fort) ,j o ', O A posed to set aside £7O per annum f lie f, 0 , ee „, questration i s titre .u' e d of '',..0.! 019 whole incumbrance bad by tb „,,,.t r OP wi te ,e 0 the.livings released. His income c ° ', ",e9O pe r pe Mr. PAYNE replied, that the insolvefe aae b r e i e , 0: 5 3 0., 1 ',,0 3 . Anne's bounty farms, realizing bout £0 ico r ' 0 . , tirsurpliceely a t fheeers,owwhnicdhisaveraged abou t t , 1 „ : u 5 ., 51 : e0., ot tb r e o p e: e to o t 6 had a very small income, not exceedlyt, A pfeo c A l l„re,, ° 4 His HONOUR could not con.sider tb* "P;ithqpi. oiii tion as vexatious. It too freque n Av en tit 10, JO" tions were brought and instruction,,P.: ts ug. , l e 0 9 , as his own experience had too fta!!./soivelP4 OP s h h im ou t l o d hpiassspothriesimanneatir vitioitnhooofttbtebelugightel' • of his conduct. ------'-' _—_- --- ICING Oth°' but, could MAN ------thingi Beginning w ith in ri ° oug ht, rs e And ending t,' s the oub, ed propositionax la, thet when ohhuaens He has run througtnbeo tog , t a, ins lor'( Which his god fa ______.---- As s t ie 'Tt---------A¢e--tr) leo loge ° IJO°e lia,° noto ... a g o r s e t e rr:s y s x • i. P . t ; hiseepr p lie t: tt e i, " 6003 i r tl is ; foc e , : c 01 : 1 :: with a London horse-dealer for itsiext w or e di ger e et l l 4o, e making up his mind to offer posted off to the stable -yard, Joe, 0 . 0 0 1 A O: met was the groom. " Mast!but'be Jet d in r ( o master be dead," said Joe, ,, 0 ( 1 ,1 ~, ~lopli g„, grll have the mare." vono-' Ql,Ol-A„‘ ~.,, urREATEST WATERFALL 11 4 ti', . o the - c ,„01,, ,. .t , gical report of Lapland, presente: ' the dis ' ro c s re: t tb: ment, amongst other curious foe' t . io lorlY ja 1 ,t . ,,, ill'oef waterfall in the river Lule aisle,ron, ...al ro ba%tlisor is said to one-eighth of a !-_'. 'lt i , P r d,no l bolt height to fall four hundred feet_re oc co to d ti measurements in this documentl to N ur man standard, a mile being aq ua lish miles. • .; 6 ' J_ e A 1, Per n trtiw‘i lot t ,‘ Itt i lo t ! I 110 d