The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-08 00:00:00

bilvenro.—lt will be seen that Mr. Harwood has made arrangement, to accommodate pupils at ladies' seminaries at his residence, without the necessity of their mingling with the general class. This will be found very advantageous. 13 PEAKING INTO - - night last, or early on Saturday morn broke into the shop of Mr. Ellis Jac dealer and fiews-vender,' Paradise-street, near Cooper's-row trcl tarried off a quantity of cigars and tobacco. The buildin,, Is low, and the depredators had broken in by the roof, and effected an entrance into the shop by forcing a door. Some noise was heard within by the police officer on the walk, be tween one and two on Saturday morning ; but before he Could discern the cause, the parties had escaped with appa rently only part of their booty, other articles besides those taken having been removed. The thieves are supposed to be the same gang that, on Saturday night, attempted no fewer Ulan three shops . in South Castle-street. ND ROBBING A SHOP.—On Frith: ,orne thief or thieve and tobacci It will be perceived from the advertisement in another Column, that Mr. Newton, the spirited proprietor of the Mu sical Saloon; Dick's Coffee House, Murray-street, has enga ged that talented artist, Von Joel, from the Royal Gardens, V auxhall. The inimitable talent of this gentleman in his Peculiar line will, we are convinced, afford a rich treat to the frequenters of the Saloon, and a golden harvest to the land ord. The glee singing is deserving of great praise. Mr. Mingard, whose soul seems indentified with his songs is deservedly a great favourite ; and the simple, unpretending ballad melodies, introduced by Mr. Crank, are given with exquisite taste. We cannot pretend to particularlise the tn7ity attractions this truly elegant room offers to the public. A e can only recommend persons to pay 'Ali - . Newton a visit, and judge for themselves. TRE BRUSSELS PIGEON MATCH.—There was caught in a tree near St. Helens, about the 11th of July last, one of the fifty-seven pigeons let loose at Liverpool on the 4th July, belonging to the Society of Progress, Brussels. It had the fallowing marks upon its wing and tail :—" Le Progress— Bruxelles-22." The bird was then in a state of exhaustion, it had also a broken leg, but soon recovered its strength, and also the use of its leg, arid is now in a perfect state of health. It has since its recovery been let loose, and made several at tempts to visit its native'country, but always returned. Byer since its last return it has been confined. It is now in the Possession of John Mercer, Church-street, St. Helens. THEATRE ROYAL.—This theatre opened for the winter season last night. The lessees have been compelled by cir cumstances to allow only a day to elapse between the seasons. It will be seen by the advertisement that the old favourite of the public, Browne,is about to re-appear on the English boards : he is a sterlin. , actor, and much wanted. To-morrow evening Mr. Thalberg, the grand maestro of the pianoforte playing art, will delight and astonish the musical amateurs. Con siderable curiosity is felt to hear Ronconi, as rumour, with its h un d re d t ongues , h as t r umpeted forth his fame with a loud and stirring note. Mrs. Toulmin is well known as Possessing a charming voice, much taste, and execution. Mr. J. Parry, as a buffo singer, perhaps has no compeer. A treat of a very high order is in store for those who attend the concert. On Friday the puitgrannne is strenthened by the name of Mrs. St. Albin appeaiTnlT - ghe is announced to play a duet with Mr. Thalberg. 11rs. St. Albin, we believe, Is generally admitted to be one of the most eminent of English Piaaofortiites; her brilliant execution, taste, and knowledge of the art divine, entitle her to this proud position. We anticipate that the auetto will be a surprising and delightful Performance; the utmost powers of the pianoforte will be tested ; in point of fact, it will be a trial of skill ; and we would not mind betting odds, were we not " One of those old cunning stagers Who say fools for argument make wagers," that the lady will not get the worst of it. A.lll Pll ITH C ATM. —The vari id amusing performances at this theatre, in spite of bad times, never fail to draw a fair sprinkling of good company. The scenes in the arena are alternately varied with feats of agility and strength on the stage. Many of the latter are_ so surprising as almost to be considered impossible. For instance, Mr. Derious swings, balances, and throws about an immense beam with his feet, while lying in a recumbent posture, with all the dexterity that another man would do a slight pole in his hands. The %yeas, in their gymnastic exercises, greatly excel all others we have seen ; their feats of strength, agility, and neatness of execution must be the result of great practice. Mr. Sands' Performances in the ring are of a dashing character; they are gone through with a fearlessness and ease, as well as grace, that take away the appearance of danger. His scenes on horseback ate so well done as to appear quite easy,—the true test of excellence. Mr. Sweeney on his banjo contributes greatly to the pleasantness of the entertainments. We are assured by those who have come from the ," far west," that to see a true picture of the free nigger, in his times of re creation, we have only to listen to Mr. Sweeney. Jim Crow Rice was a burlesque,—Mr. Sweeney's is a true portraiture. The clowns are originals ; one of them -appears a regular down-easter. They never fail to excite laughter. Mr. Sands has a well-taught pony,which fetches and carries at command with the greatest facility. If this is a Boston pony, we won der he sometimes shys at carrying the basket, as he might fancy be was going to "market," for the market in Boston la the thin"' to see and talk about, and this reminds us that Dickenshas given great offence to the Bostonians by not making mention of it. Several novelties are preparing . Tine hemoiselle Francaise is about making her debut from Fran cones, at Paris, who is said to be an equestrian Cerito, and a Sort of feminine Ducrow,_ pos6essing the highest attainments in the equestrian art. Before concluding this notice we must give a word of advice to the riding master, Mr. Decamp : he must recollect that times are very bad,—that although there has been no fault so far, we believe, to find with the attend ance, he should remember that no establishment, however prosperous. can stand too great an expense, and the quantity of whipcord he must consume is, no doubt, a frightful item ; in Plainer terms, his constant cracking of his whip is a positive nuisance,—it is annoying and unnecessary, " Oh, reform it altogether." INTERRUPTION OF THE GOVERNItf rant Hamley, who is at present in Li the Commissioners of the Board of r SURVEY.—Lieute pool by direction of finance to make the Survey of Liverpool, appeared before the magistrate on Friday, to allege a complaint against Mr. Samuel Lefone, tanner, of Marybone, for obstructing him in the discharge of his duty. Lieutenant Hamley stated that he was at tached to a company of•sappers and miners, and had been sent here by the Board of Ordnance to make a survey of the town. He had sent a corporal and an assistant to the pre mises of Mr. Lafone to make a survey of that gentleman's Works, but they had come to him afterwards, and stated that they were unable to execute their duty as Mr. Lafone would not allow them to enter the premises and go on with their He bad wri on the subject but he did not answer his letter. He understood, however, that that gentleman had called at his (Lieut. Hamley's) residence, but as he was out of town at the time he did not see him, and Concluded by stating that he had two witnesses who would prove the case. Lieutenant Hamley then called John Ken nedy, who deposed that he was employed to assist corporal Levan in making a survey of Mr. Lafone's premises, and stated after he had been in his yard some time the foreman • came to him and told him he was not to remain there any longer as Mr. Lafone would not permit it. In consequence of the intimation of the foreman he (Kennedy) served a Paper containing the directions of the Board of Ordnance, respecting the survey, upon Mr. Lafone, but notwithstand ing that, he would not allow him to go on with his work. Corporal Bevan gave similar evidence. Mr. Rushton stated, that according to the act of parliament s any person who offered any obstruction to officers under the Board of Ordnance in the discharge of their duty was liable to a Penalty of not more than £lO, and not less than £2. Mr. Lafone stated, that when the man showed him his autho rity he let him into his yard,. and after being there four days, he asked him how much longer he was going to stay, and as he could not tell him, he thought, as it was his own pro perty, he would not allow him to come in again. Mr. Rush ton said the business of the men was highly important. There was an act of parliament authorising a survey of Great Britain, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the Isle of Man, and it was the duty of every one to offer every facility in carrying out that survey. Lieutenant Hamley said be was certain that it was necessary for the men to enter the pre _lnises from time to time in order to perfec t the s urve y . M r. Rushton in aired if his men had offered any obstruction to Mr. Lafone s business, or had done his premises any harm Kennedy said he occupied no mor and that he had neither offered in, Lafene's men.—Mr. Rushton (ad__ he was clearly out of court in the present case, and if every Person were to give similar trouble to what he had done, the survey would never be made. Mr. Lafone replied that had Lieutenant Malley come to him and stated what time he re quired he should have had:it, but he did not think it right that his men should be coming to his place without fixing a limit to their stay.—Lieutenant Hamley said it was not his wish to press for a heavy penalty. He merely wished not to be obstructed in the discharge of his duty.—Mr. Lafone re- Plied, that he did not wish for any mercy at all in the case, • but he could not refrain from stating, that he thought he had not been well used.—Mr. Rushton then informed Mr. La fone that he must pay £5 and costs. The penalty was paid, and the parties left the court. time than was necessary, It or interruption to Mr. Mr. Lafone) said iressing , THE I NFAN T SAPPIIO..--It will be seen that this asserted to extraordinary child is about to make her appearance in Liverpool. She commences her performance on Monday next at the Royal Assembly Rooms. As some account of hermay be acceptable, we quote the following from the Musi cal Review :—LouisaVinning was born at Kingsbridge,in De vonshire , on the 10th of November, 1836 , and is consequently little more than five years and a half old. Her father, Mr. John Vinning, evinced a precocious taste for music, and, when a child, was taken from his parents by Mr. Garrow, a llephew of Judge Garrow, and now a magistrate of Torquay, Devon. Under the auspices of this gentleman, who was a Pupil of the late Mr. Mori, his predilection for the art was fostered and encouraged. Mr. Vinning was organist of Tor !=lay Chapel at the age of twelve years, and has since officiated in that capacity at various churches. At the age of nine months, the intense delight Miss Vinning derived from music was first ascertained by the influence the sound of her father's violin had upon her; no sooner did he commence his strains, than her face beamed with .delight, and her whole frame moved in unison with the measure.. She began to sing be fore she could speak. One evening, in the summer of 1839, when she was only three years old, the father was summoned to the couch of his o listen to the soft notes welly of uck with she was unconsciousl, the melody, which the infant sang several times, heembraced the opportunity of writing it, and arranged a symphony and accompaniment for it, which he appropriately styled " The Infant's Dream." Whilst at play, she gives utterance to her musical ideas by instinct, as it were, and many of these snatches of song have been transferred to paper by her f nther, for publication. When the little songstress attained her second year, she was announced to sing in public as a musical prodigy, and she made a great impression upon those who heard her. The opinion of the :" monster public" was echoed by musicians of eminence. The following is an ex tract from a letter to Mr. Vinning from the great pianiste, the kind-hearted Thalberg I regret exceedingly I have not until now had a spare moment to fulfil my promise in writing to you, expressing the delight I had in hearing your dear little girl sing so astonishing correct, and with so pleas ing a voice. She is, indeed, a most astonishing child, and I hope she will soon meet the patronage and encouragement w hich her extraordinary talent undoubtedly claims." Mr. oscheles, in a letter dated the 29th of March, 1810, says— She appears to me, not only to be most liberally gifted with a voice of unusual compass, but also with a sensitiveness of o rganization, whether as concerns the powers of correctly re taining melodies, or of reproducing intervals, remarkable, 41, e being only three years old." To these testimonials, Sit corge Smart adds the following remark, couched in languagc °f his usual propriety and good sense :—" I beg leave tc _ state that I consider st rong feeling for mu both for time and tune , without effort." After having sung at several musical partie. I n London, the fame of the " Infant Sappho " reached the ea rs of the Queen, and in August, 1840, an order was sea , 0 . her 'father to repair to 13uckinghain Palace, where he - L'itajesty, after hearing her, expressed her delight, took th en ild in her arms, embraced her, and placed in her bosom I n agniiiceut diamond pin, without which she never appear Public. When singiug, she does not pronounce any words, 4t merely the musical sound of the melody, resembling lore the Italian accent than any other language. She can t: 4, s from C (which is the natural key) to A (which requires e gamut) sharps with great.tprecision, to restore he sem and can modulateitones to the true loca li from a ties on ,„ ;" i !nior t o a m i nor k e y, i n which the localities of the semitones Oritf,er; she is capable of singing an air after hearing it three .our times. She is a self-taught dander as well as a singer, Z i a i nu the occasion of the celebration of the Princess Mary's bir thday, at the Duchess of Gloucester's, she had the honour the partner of the Princess. Whether this praise is tiolfied we shall be able to state in this day week's publica• n lost won y correct ear Plitz.—On Pride) , afternoon, about flute o'clock, a fire was discovered in Mr. Hampton's patent amber malt ware• house, in Grayson-street. Before the flames had obtained any great head, the police fire-engines were in attendance, and extinguished the fire in a few minutes. It is supposed that it originated in a kiln which is chiefly used for the dry- ing of malt upon the premises. The kiln was occupied by cotton, which had been placed there for the purpose of being dried, and, whilst undergoing that process, combustion took place. The flames extended to the roof of the kiln, which they destroyed, and then communicated with other cotton which was in the upper room of the warehouse. Here some two or three bags were destroyed, but the active operations of the engines prevented• further damage and subdued the flames. A FIFTII OF NOVEMBER CASUALITY.—James Bradley, a youth, aged about seventeen years, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on Saturday, charged with having committed an offence against the law which prohibits the use of fire-arms within the borough. A gentleman produced a hollow iron tube, about half a pound weight. It had originally been part of an iron gaspipe, but one end had been closed up, and near this end a hole had been partly filled and partly drilled, so as to make a rude sort of cannon, about six inches in length, and half an inch in the bore. This the prisoner had dis charged in a piece of vacant ground in Burlington-street. Such was the force of the recoil that the tube had flown a distance of thirty-five yards, passed through the window of Mrs. Barton's public-house, and struck a settle within one of the appartments, after which it dropped near the feet of a gentleman, who appeared as a witness. The prisoner was fined 10s. and costs; in default of payment, he was to be im prisoned five days. _ _ LIVERPOOL CALEDONIAN FREE SCHOOL.—OD the 14th ult., Mr. Thomas Macgill, ex-president of the Caledonian Free School of this town, forwarded to his Royal Highness Prince Albert copies of two original anthems, written for and sung by the children of the above school, at the celebration of her Majesty's coronation and marriage. The anthems were accompanied by a letter, stating that 350 children, of Scottish parentage, were receiving education suited to their sphere in life at these schools, and concluded as follows : " Should your royal highness be pleased to direct that a bible, with your autograph. be sent as a donation to the library of this charitable institution, in token of your approval of the sentiment contained in the anthems, it would have a happy effect on the young minds of the scholars." In consequence of this letter, his royal highness, through his secretary, Mr. Anson, has forwarded a small bible to the school, and on the guard leaf is the following inscription :—" Albert, Windsor Castle, October 21, 11342." THE NEW BANKRUPTCY Acz.—The Gazette, of Friday, contains an order dividing the kingdom into seven districts for the purposes of the act. The following relates to the Li verpool districts " LIVERPOOL DISTRICT. " The Liverpool district shall comprehend all places in cluded within, or to be considered as forming parts of the southern division of the county of Chester, as the same; is settled and described by the said last-mentioned act ; and all such places locally situated in the county of Lancaster, as will not be included in the Manchester district, hereinbefore described ; and all places locally situated in any of the several counties in 'Wales, hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, _ . . Tne county of Anglesea, The county of Carnarvon, The county of Denbigh, The county of Flint. TRICKS OF THE TRADES OF LIVERPOOL. No. I RANK OF MANCHESTER.-SPECIAL MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS. Yesterday, a special meeting of the shareholders in the Bunk of Manchester was held at Hayward's Hotel, Man chester, in conformity with the following notice, issued by the directors :—" Manchester, 11th October, IB42.—Bank of Manchester.—Notice is hereby given, that,ti consequence of its having been ascertained by the Board of Directors of this bank, from the communications made, by the managing director, on Friday, the 7th instant, that the whole of the surplus fund, and more than one-fourth of the capital of the Company actually paid by the shareholders, had been ex hausted by losses sustained in carrying on the business of the Company, a Special General Meeting of the proprietors will be held on Monday, the 7th day of November next, at twelve o'clock at noon, at Hayward's Hotel, in Bridge-street, Man chester, in order to submit to such meeting full r.nd_gene ral statement of the affairs and concerns of: the company, in conformity_with the 74th clause of the original deed of set- Tder of the board of director —William Smith, Managing Director." The meeting was very fully attendectby shareholders from different parts of the country. JOHN SPENCER, Esq., one of the directors, was called to the chair, and near him sat the following directors :—Mr. Smith, manager, Mr. Birt, Mr. J. C. Dyer, Mr. John Pot ter, Mr. 011ivant, Mr. Haynes, and Mr. Wm. Hill : and Mr. Richard Roberts was also present in the body of the room, Mr. SMITH, the managing director, at the request of the Chairman, read the advertisement by which the meeting was convened as above, and also the 74th clause in the deed of settlement as follows, which provides for the dissolution of the company under the circumstances therein stated : " If at any time the losses of the company shall have ex hausted alt the fund called the surplus fund, and also one fourth part of the capital of the company, which shall have been actually paid by the shareholders, without regard to the amount of the subscribed capital, then the directors for the time being, shall, with all convenient speed, call a spe cial general meeting of the proprietors of the company, and shall submit to such meeting a full and general statement of the affairs and concerns of the company ; and, if required at such meeting, verify and establish such statement by the production of the books, documents, and vouchers of the company; and it shall be thereupon lawful for hny one pro prietor, personally present at such meeting, in writing, then and there to require that the company be dissolved ; and, thereupon, this company shall stand dissolved accordingly, unless two-third parts in number and value of the proprie tors present at such meeting, and qualified to vote as afore said, shall he desirous of continuing and carrying on the said concern, shall then and there, in writing, undertake so to do, and to purchase the shares of the dissentient proprietors, present at such meeting, at the then value thereof, and to indemnify the dissentient proprietors against all future . losses of - the company, and from the existing debts ant gagements thereof; such value - and the nature of such in demnity to be ascertained, in case of difference, by reference to arbitration, as aforesaid ; and also to release the said dis sentient proprietors, present at such meeting, from their covenants and undertakings in and under these presents, and any supplementary deed of settlement; and on such un dertaking being given, the dissolution of the company shall be suspended for the space of sixty days next after such meeting ; and if, within that time, the purchase of the shares of the dissentient proprietors shall be completed in manner hereinafter expressed, then such dissolution shall not take place; and the act whereby any proprietor shall in manner aforesaid have required the dissolution of the said company, shall be considered as avoided and released, ab briar); and the purchase of the said last-mentioned shares shall be considered as completed for the purposes of this provision, whenever the said proprietors, proposing to conti nue the company as aforesaid, shall, by writing, have given notice to the dissentient proprietors that they are prepared to pay the purchase money for the said shares, on applica tion by the parties entitled thereto for the same, •at the banking-house of the company in Manchester, and shall, in accordance therewith, have actually paid the same to the parties applying for theirlmoney ; or, in case of difference as to the amount of such purchase money, shall have offered to refer the question of such amount to arbitration as aforesaid ; and have proceeded in such arbitration, and have complied with the award made therein ; or have been prevented so doing by the neglect or default of the other party ; and no thing herein contained shall extend to release such dissen tient proprietors as aforesaid, from bearing their respective proportions of the losses of the company up to the day of such general meeting as aforesaid; and their shares of losses may be deducted out of the money payable to them respec tively ; and the company, as reduced or newly constituted, from time to time, shall be liable to dissolution or to conti nuance, from time to time, in like manner, and under and subject to the same or the like regulations as aforesaid." The CHAIRMAN said that Mr. Smith had prepared a report of the present state of the bank, bringing its condi tion down to Thursday last. The former report brought the account dawn only to the end of June last; this embraced a period of four subsequent months. Mr. SMITH then proceeded to read the report. The report read at the late meeting on the 15th of October, and which appeared in the following publication of the Standard, brought the financial position of the bank down to June last, the losses then being £800,887. 18s. 9d. ; and the present report, as the Chairman stated, was in continuation. After recapitulating that report, the document proceeded : " The directors have only further to report, that the arrangements then alluded to for paying off the liabilities of the bank have hitherto been carried out without interruption; and they have no reason to doubt that their views on this head will be fully realized. They beg to acknowledge the promptitude with which a large portion of the heaviest share holders have anticipated the payment of the call of £2. per share. - - - The followit the company, me fig is a statement of the direct liabilities of fide up to the 27th ult.:— .Y..,„ - Et*E - R:' a a 0 =~~~ov~ Hwy ; , 1 cr bo -.4 co co N C:) ~ ~.-+ •-• CI t— , ~..• P-0 I—. tC cz o p. 0 C:+ C, 0: , I—. ?,' &I ) ~0~0~~0~ , Z O 4,.00,27,0:>-,t CZ 0 c::, 0 C, r- , IND = F, c,,.. 1 -3 ~..5 r i . Q the money of the bank for his own private use and that of his family. (Cheers.) He hoped, now that these charges were distinctly made, that the chairman would call upon Mr. Ro berts to stand up and defend himself. (Cheers.) Mr. MILLINGTON said he would second any motion that :tors themselves—some of whom he thou —and the meeting would not think of separ til every statement in the them had been patiently investig THE "JERRY BUILDER" question I The county of Merioneth, and PETER HUGHES.—On Friday, at the Lambeth police office, this person was again brought up on a charge of ob taining a large sum of money (according to his own acknow ledgment 100 guineas), by falsely representing himself as the Rev. Mr. - Kavanagh, parish-priest of Ballykenney, in the county of Wexford, Ireland The facts elicited on the first . examination we published in the Standard of Tuesday last. Since the last examination Inspector Donnigan. who has had the case in hand, has received - several letters from the heads of Catholic families in Birmingham and its vicinity, whom the prisoner has victimized by the same misrepresentations. Thc prisoner, who is a fellow of the most plausible manners, in defence said the whole of the money' collected by hini should be appropriated to the object for which it had been collected, namely, the building of the chapel. He was re- manded for three — weeks and a few days before the sessions when the Rev. Mr. Kavanagh will be in town, to disprove his representation of his being a clergyman of that name, or having authority to collect for the INSOLVENT DEBTORS.—The following are the arrange ments for the spring courts for the relief of insolvent debtors on the NOrthtirn Circuit, 1843: YORKSHIRE. - At Sheffield, Friday, February 10.—Wake field, Monday, FebrUary 13.—At the Town and County of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull, Monday, February 20. —At York, Wednesday, February 22.—At the City - and County of . the City of York, the same day.—At Rich- mond, Friday, February 24 DURHAM.—At Durham, Saturday February 25 NORTHUMBERLAND.—At Newcastle-upon:Tyne, Tuesday, February 28.—At the Town and County of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the same day. CUMBERLAND.-. •At - Carlisle, Friday:March 3 WEsTmont - ND.:7At . Applehy,lVloxiciay, March 6.—At Ken- dal, Tuesday, March LANCASHIRE.-At Lancaster, Wednesday, March B.—At Preston,_ Thursday, March 16.—At Liverpool, Friday, March 17, CHESHIRE. - At Chester, Monday, March 20.—At the City and County of the City of Chester, the same day. The Commissoner who is to come this circuit is not named, but as Mr. Reynolds takes the Midland, Mr. Harris the Southern, and Mr. Law the Home, the successor of the late Mr. Bowen, who is not yet appointed, will, we suppose, take the Northern. GAMBLING ON A " SMALL" SCALE.—A man named John Sharp was . brought up, at the Police-court, yesterday, on a charge of cheating another, John Joyce, of the sum of £2 19s. at cards. Both appeared to be working men. The com plainant said, that on Saturday he was playing with the pri soner, and just when he had lost the sum stated, he discovered that the prisoner had kept four cards out of the pack in one of his hands, by which he made successful cuts. By this means be was "cut" out of his money. On cross-examination by Mr. Owens, the case assumed a mitigated complexion. The parties had been playing on a former occasion at pitch and-toss, in the Old Haymarket, when the complainant won is 9d. from the prisoner, but lo'st to him anumber of pawn- tickets, which the latter, however, returned to him. On the last occasion referred to in the co•nplaint,thecomplainant . . had gone in search of the prisoner, and had induced him to come and have a game with him, showing him 10s. which he had to sport. They went into a cellar in Lace-street, where whiskey and ale were sold, and afterwards to another cellar where drink was also sold, and played till five in the morning. —The sum of £1 18s. was found upon the prisoner. —Mr. Rushton said that the prisoner must, under the cir cumstances, be discharged.—The complainant applied for the money, saying be was a poor man with a wife and three children.—Mr. Rushton said, it was a great shame for him in that case to go to such places and gamble ; and as there was no witness to speak to the use of the four cards to de fraud him, he must take the consequences, as he (Mr. R.) could make no order about the money in his behalf. HIGHWAY ROBBERIES IN EDGE-LANE.—The vicinity of Edge-lane has recently been infested by a gang of footpads, whn have carried on their operations with - much brutal daring. About a fortnight ago, Miss Turner, who lives at the top of Edge-lane, was, while on her way home after dark, violently assaulted by two men and robbed. On Mon day night last, about seven o'clock, as a gentleman was on his way from Liverpool to the Old Swan, by the way of Edge lane, when near Jackson's rope-walk, a man rushed out of the hedge and passed him, saying, " How far away 1" Im mediately two other men dashed out of the hedge and made towards the gentleman, who, however, turned and ran to wards the town. The fellows pursued him till he met a shandry, when they stopped and made off. The next night, (Tuesday,) Mr. John Kilshaw, who resides at Broad Green, was returning home about seven o'clock. He was in Edge lane, not far from the ropery above-mentioned, when he was stopped by two men. One of them stood in front and presented a pistol at his face, while the other quickly rifled his pockets, robbing him of what money he had about him. Ree . overing' his presence of mind, Mr.' Kilshaw called out, when the villain who held the pistol immediately fired. The muzzle of the pistol was at this moment resting against the side of his jaw, past which the contents glanced, fortunately without inflicting further injury to the face than what re sulted from the explosion of the powder, by which, however, the skin and eyes suffered severely. The charge carried away the collar of Mr. Kilshaw's coat, and tore away other portions of his apparel. The moment the shot was fired the villains made a precipitate retreat: Shortly before this oc currence, a gentleman passed the spot where it took place. He heard footsteps behind him, and was presently accosted by a tall man dressed in fustian clothes, who overtook him, gave him a sort of*" good night," and passed on. Shortly afterwards the same man turned and met him, and again passed him. In a few moments he met a gentleman whom he supposes was Mr. Kilshaw, and but a very short time elapsed after they passed each other when he heard a cry of " murder!" and words, which he believes to have been " don't—oh don't," followed by the report of a pistol. The police-officer on Jackson's rope-walk heard the shot fired, and in a short time arrived to the assistance of the wounded man, whom he accompanied borne, but he saw nothing of the robbers. The servant of Mr. Haywood, who resides in the neighbourhood, also heard the shot. It is stated that another gentleman was stopped in Edge-vale, the same night, by two ruffians, who presented a pistol at his head. He made an outcry, upon which the villains darted off with out attempting to rob him. NUISANCES.—No fewer than six informations were yes terday laid against a person named Alexander Smith, for a series of nuisances committed by him, on the 12th, 18th, 25th, 26th, and 31st ult., and the Ist instant. Mr. Shuttle worth, deputy town-clerk, said that the defendant occupied a small yard in Banastre-street, in which he boiled the entrails of animals—often when they were in a state of putridity—in order to extract the oil. A most offensive and noxious smell arose from the process ; and complaints having been made to the common council, the matter was investi• gated, and the nuisance being found to exist as stated, these informations were laid. As he saw Mr. Davenport in at tendance for the defendant, he would state that if his client consented to plead guilty, and withdraw from the trade, he (Mr. S.) would not press for the penalties.—Mr. Davenport advised with the defendant, who, however, would not consent to this proposition, saying, the complaints made all originated in spite and malice.—Mr. Shuttleworth then called Inspector Morley, who said, that in consequence of the complaints made to the council (by petition from several of the neighbours), he had visited the yard of the defendant, in Banastre-street, on the 18th October, at nine in the morning, being specially appointed to do so. He found in the yard a quantity of the entrails of animals (pigs and sheep, he believed), and also some in one of two copper boilers. The smell reached him in Marybone and Garden-street, and was so bad that it made him sick. There were houses all round the yard.—Mr. Davenport cross-examined the witness, but did not elicit anything particular.—Mr. Rushton read the clause in the bye-law affecting nuisances, by which it appeared that the making of any nuisance, noxious, or offensive gases or vapours, militating against the health and comfort of the in habitants, constituted a nuisance which subjected the party to fine, not exceeding, £5 each separate offence or time.—Mr. Shuttleworth said that even if it affected the " comfort" alone it was a nuisance.—A number of witnesses who lived in the immediate neighbourhood, or a short distance from it, were then successively called, and gave testimony of the nuisance of so strong a nature, that we must be excused nauseating our readers by giving the details. Suffice it to say that the stench of the steam and the stuff used was stated to be intolerable; that it frequently made them and their families sick and ill, deprived them of appetite for food, and prevented them from sleeping at night. The materials used were garbage, most offensive in odour, and the steam from the boiling of them was still worse. One shopkeeper who lived 200 yards off, said the smell was even there very noxious, affected his own and his family's health, and that ' his customers complained of it. Mr. Davenport called two or three witnesses, whose noses, it appeared, were imper vious to the effluvia, but as they lived in cellars where it could not so easily descend to them, their evidence did not affect that in chief.—Mr. Rushton said the defendant wee clearly out of court. Mr. Shuttleworth said he would re. ' new his offer not to push for the penalties if the defendant would plead guilty to the other five informations, and give up the trade. This was finally agreed to on the part of the latter, and a fine of £5 on each was levied, (£3O in all,) on 5 the understanding that if the nuisance was instantly abated ' they would not be levied, and a week was allowed to the de ' fendant to remove his materials, &c. On the defendant and his wife leaving the court, they came into contact with some of the witnesses, and the wife struck one of the females, and the defendant one of the police-officers. A regular fracas s ensued at the door, and the aggressors were brought back in r custody, and immediately placed in the dock. The case 5 being proved, the woman, who was the principal and original - offender, was fined 40s. and costs, or one month ; and Smith ss. arid costs, or seven days. The world at large, and many, even, of the community to whom the following remarks are addressed, may require to know what is the description of a tradesman whom we desig- nate as " the Jerry builder." We will endeavour, as briefly as we can, to illustrate the meaning attached to the term in You cannot pass through any of the modern portions of the town of Liverpool without your attention being called to piles of buildings, prematurely old—decayed before age can have had any legitimate right to injure brickwork or wood work—" situate and being," as the lawyers would say, in ill-paved and ill•sewered streets—with puddles, broken win dows, windows glazed with paper, leaky spouts, and other insignia of want of finish and poverty, in front, and narrow courts, dirty passages, and unsightly objects of every imagin able kind and degree behind. These, you may rest assured, are " jerry built " houses. Again, go into streets of still more modern erection, in the outskirts of the borough. You will see, perhaps, a lot of houses exhibiting externally an infinite amount of pretension ;—verandas in front—perhaps Elizabethan in style, or vi Ila-form—stuccoed or rough-cast — with superb door-way and fan-light, and a magnificent ex panse of door-step. So much for outside. Knock at or open any door, and when you imagine that you are entering a palace you will be amazed to find yourself in something more nearly approaching to a piggery. There is a lobby, paltry in dimensions, and a staircase little less steep and narrow than the ascent to a hayloft. The front parlour is three yards by four, or thereabouts, and is papered; but, the substratum of plaster being bad, it is blotched in parts, and manifests symptoms of peeling off by a yard at a time. There are window-shutters ; but they either do not fasten when up, or are not so ambitious as to go up at all. There is a cupboard, with a sideboard top, by the fireplace, with a lock which will not lock, because it never had a key. There s a bell-pull, but it does not ring, because it never was attached to a bell; a chimney-piece, upon which you must not lay your watch, lest it come down with the weight; a grate with the coves falling down, and a hearth which saves you the trouble of carrying out the ashes, because they can be more expeditiously disposed of by sweeping them quietly through an interstice at the back into the cellar below ! There is a back parlour of similar crazy construction, cellar kitchens, drawing-room, and bed-rooms "to match." The whole are painted, but you mustn't wash the paint lest you have only the wood left. This is a modern—a new — The county of Montgomery." built " house. ." jerry But still you. will say—what is the Jerry builder ? Why. he is the builder of just such tenements as we have described --of temporary erections—shells of houses—patches of brick work and woodwork, put together just sufficiently to be called houses, and, like Jew watches, to be taken for spew. As a matter of course, the " Jerry builder" is seldom more the temporary owner of the houses which he builds. lie buys a piece of land and he covers it with houses, as a Brummagem dealer covers his dolls with flaring calico. His object is to sell, or to let, apiece of land covered with a house. Neither land nor house is the absolute property of the man who lets it you as his own, but belongs to some lawyer or other party as mortgagee. If you want a repair, your ostensible landlord can do nothing, and the real landlord will do nothing. The former is reaping all he can before his mortgage is foreclosed, and his property lapses into other hands; the latter is quietly waiting for the consummation which the other anticipates. Let us, briefly as we can, describe a jerry-building specu- lation. Tom Styles, a joiner or a bricklayer, with twenty pounds in his pocket, , or a share or two in a building society, and an understanding with Timothy Nokes, plumber. and painter, and sundry other people of equal reputation in the world, purchases from some speculative land agent or lawyer a plot of land. We shall not enter into the question whether, at all, or how it is paid for. The first step towards covering it with houses is the sinking of the foundations and cellars and that operation is performed by contract, by Patrick some body or other with a euphonious name, and his gang of " soughers." The said Patrick realises a pound or two on paper, and his Helots potatoes and herring, and mayhap a drop of " illicit" by the transaction. The cellar floors are then laid, the cellar walls rise, and the beams are laid for the first or ground floor ; and then comes that most mysterious of operations—" a draw." But we are going too fast. The question has first to be de ded between Tom Styles and Timothy Nokes, which of ,em is trustworthy enough to receive the said " draw." his is a highly interesting contrqversy, watched with great anxiety by Patrick the " sougher" and his men, two or three hod-carriers, and the workmen of the controversialists. The question is at length decided. Tom Stiles, as having the greatest stake (?) in the speculation, receives " the draw," and forthwith draws out of the affair, leaving his colleague to battle out the claim of Patrick and others as well as he can. This affair settled or temporarily smoothed down, the next story rises under the superintendence of Timothy Nokes; is in due time completed, and then comes another " draw." Now Timothy happens to have been recently en gaged in building half a dozen cottages for John Snooks, who keeps a provision shop, and who has not been able to pay him off, un!ess be will take sluip goods—soap, bread, candles, pepper, mustard, cheese, and other similar com- modities—instead of cash. Timothy, moreover, has himself a bill for lead to meet, for which the " draw" in question presents itself very opportunely The proposition is made that the workmen employed should receive 'part of their claims in money, and the remainder in goods from the shop of the beforementioned John Snooks ; and after a council of war or two, held at the neighbouring public-house, sity" it is found " has no law," and the proposition is " neces- acceded to. We have said nothing, thus far, of the grievances and hard ships to which th 6 poor workmen and labourers are sub jected—of the penniless Saturday nights, the dinnerless Sundays, and the weekdays of almost famine. We have said nothing of the various minor " contractors," whose inge nuity, and too frequent rascality, are put in requisition during the progress of the erection. The window-sashes and door frames, perhaps, are contracted for by one, and the doors by another; and, as they are to be put together at a trifle more than the cost of the timber, the timber merchant or the working joiner employed is victimized or gets but half paid. Then plastering and slapdashing and painting are to be done ; and are managed in a similar fashion. They are got through, as a seamstress would say, " with long stitches"—are slurred over just sufficiently to pass muster until pay-day—until there is a " draw," with very often a " bolt" at the end of it ! But proceed we, more seriatim, to the last story—to the roofing, slating and internal finishing. Suppose the building up—walls, roof, chimneys and all. Then should come the final draw. But first the work must be surveyed—aye, there's the rub ! The land-agent, or the lawyer for some mortgagee, has all along furnished the money for the various " draws" which have preceded. He wishes now to examine his security ; and we will, if the reader permit us, accompany him in his survey and his calculation. Imprimis then, it will be remembered, we have never said that the land has been paid for. In fact it has not. It has never even been conveyed! Tom Styles and Timothy Nukes had originally a contract of sale, it is true ; and they secured the owner for the cost, by the bricks and timber and work which they have put upon the land ; but they have received money since to enable them to pay—so- far as they can be said to have paid—for those bricks, that timber and labour; and the transaction must now be placed en reyle, by a deed of mortgage, previous to rcceiving the " final draw." Our reader, however, if he be a man of the world, will readily guess that mortgagees do not ordinarily advance the full cost of the land and build ings erected upon it; and the surmise will naturally present itself, that the poor expectants of their cash, for the erection of the last story, and the inside finishing, have a tolerable chance of being made to whistle awhile for their demands. And such, in too many instances, is the case. The mort gagee will not advance another shilling—how, as a prudent man, can he ?—and the builder must either place the pro perty in the hands of a collector, who can put it into mode rately tenantable condition and deduct his outlay from the rents, or he must sell. Ix case the first alternative is adopted, we pity the unlucky tenant. In case the second, we pity the unlucky buyer.buyer. The former takes a house, re puted tenantable, which smokes, which has leaky spouts and a leaky roof, is but half finished, and, though a new house, t hreatens daily to tumble about his ears, unless he is fool sufficient to prop it up at his own cost. The latter buys a house—or what he fancies is a house, but which is in reality only the framework of one—and must, unless he wishes it to , be removed the first high wind into the adjoining street or township, lay out upon it some three or four years' rent, in order to make it such a house as a decent family can reside in. In either alternative, we pity the poor workmen and tradesmen who have put together this wretched abortion of bricks, wood, and mortar. Their Christmas-day will be a sorry one ; and the chances are, that not a few of them are seen petitioning for their discharge from durance vile at the first hearing of the Insolvent Court. In conclusion, and before taking leave of this distinguished character, whom we have thought it our duty to place at the head of these sketches, we cannot but record our conviction that to the doings of no class of tradesmen in our town is to be attributed a greater amount of the misery and deteriorated condition of our labouring classes, than to the doings of " THE JERRY BUILDER." PORT 'CO.—The amusing theatre now established at this place of public resort is nightly attracting the curious. A. change of performances will take place to-night, when many novelties will be brought forward. The metropolitan police have just received information of another robbery from the person resembling in its circum stances the case of Mr. Marquis, who, as our readers will recollect, was robbed of £2,000 at the Preston Guild by a female, who has since been transported for seven years. It appears that a Mr. George Jordan, a horse-dealer, residing, at Thames, Oxon, attended Marlow fair, and whilst there a dashingly dressed woman, about 40 years of age, got into conversation with him, and succeeded, during the time the pleasant conversation lasted, in easing him of a purse con taining two bills of exchange for £5O each, one accepted by Mr. James Hill, Little Lisson-street, Lisson-grove, London, and the other by Israel Tarle, Newbury, Berks ; also £2OO in notes, some of which were of the Bank of England, and others of the Reading, Newbury, and Andover banks. Mr. STUBBS S members of the b which, it was too the share list he fi h, )oard, evido e had a few question relative to the large lt, had been lost. C hat in Manchester al to put to the sum of money In looking over one there were no less than 41,896 shares held by different classes of peopl the loss to whOm would be_ upwards of £410,000, ex-clu;iv of their payment of the calls. There were no fewer than 58 lady proprietors among the shareholders—(hear) ; and it was absolutely necessary that they should know where all this money had gone.—(Hear, hear.) It was most disgraceful that such a sum of money should have been lost by parties who called themselves gentlemen (hear) : they ought to make themselves liable for it, and if they did not their charac ters would be gone.—(Hear, hear.) His own opinion was, that every director was bound to sell every stock and stone to pay the liabilities of the bank. It was a shame that the shareholders should be swindled out of their property in the way they had. (Cheers.) He wanted to ask, first, what had the bank lost by Messrs. J. H. Heron and Sons.—(Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN replied that the property which had come into the possession of the bank from that estate was in such a state as to make it impossible to answer the question. Mr. STUBBS said, that was just the answer he expected. His next question was, how much the bank had lost by Raleigh and Co.? (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN, in reply, said, that considering the security which the bank held, and the affairs of that estate, it was quite impossible to answer that question with any degree of accuracy. (Hear.) Mr. STUBBS had another question which he wanted answering. It was this :—What, would the bank lose by Burdekin? (Hear, hear.) He saw by the list, that Burdekin was the holder of 1,400 shares. Were those shares his own property, or did they belong to the bank ? The CHAIRMAN.—He is the holder of the shares, and be is indebted to the bank besides. -The defalcation which- has accrued through his absconding will be met, and more than met, as far as we can gather, by the gentlemen who are bound with him as security. • Mr. Smins.—ls be gone away with the cognizance of the directors ? The CIIAIRMAN.—He is not gime away with my cogni iance, and I cannot for a moment imagine be is gone away with the cognizance of any other director. Mr. STUBIIS.—HC, is a scape-goat for somebody. The CHAIRMAN.—The whole idea is so entirely, absurd that I cannot,conceive how it can be entertained. 'l. my answer, and I have no doubt my colleagues will answer in the same way. Mr. STUBBS..--Will you tell me whether arrangements hate been made between the bank and the celebrated Mr. Richard Roberts ? (Cheers.). The CHAIRMAN.—There have not. Mr. STUBBS.—Why is he not in the Gazette? (Cheers.) A SHAREHOLDER. — How much does he owe to the bank? The CHAIRMAN.—Perhaps Mr. Smith will answer you that question at the proper time. . . . Anther SHAREHOLDER suggested that as Mr. Roberts was present he should be heard in the first instance. (Hear.) Mr. LowE thought the meeting ought to know first what he was indebted to the bank. Mr. STUBBS said, it was very evident he should not get an answer to his question. He should, therefore, before the meeting separated, submit a motion concerning the conduct of the directors. (Cheers.) Mr. GREIG said, there was no motion at present before the meeting, but he thought the step he was about to take would probably be the means of bringing one forward. He had endeavoured at the last meeting to bring the steel of investi gation into sudden collision with the flint of fraudulent de linquency, and thereby to elicit such a spark as would lighten the tortuous windings of the deep abyss into which the baseness of a certain individual had plunged the bank. The individual to whom lie alluded was now present; and he (Mr. Greig) trusted the chairman would see the necessity of allowing the suggestion for dissolving the company to remain in abeyance till that person came forward to give an explana tion, which the shareholders were entitled to receive, and which they must receive before entertaining such a question. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He (Mr. Greig) bad, however, brought some distinct charges against that person, which he would repeat in his presenCT, arid to which:he expccted true and faithful answers would be returned. He was aware that an attempt might be made to throw all the blame upon the unfortunate man who had absconded; but bad and worthless as he believed that man to have been, still he must himself have been unable to carry on so successfully such a compli cated scheme of villany as that which this bank exhibited. He (Mr. Greig) now charged Richard Roberts of peculiar notoriety (hear) with having abused the trust and the con fidence reposed in him as a director of this bank by the share holders. (Cheers.) Secondly, he charged him with having abused the trust and confidence reposed in him by the di rectors as one of the Committee of Management. (Cheers.) Thirdly, he charged him with having given entirely false re ports to deceive the shareholders and the public. (Cheers.) And fourthly, he charged him with fraudulently obtaining (-counts now brOugt an adjournment should take place to afforu The shareholders surely were not to be sures for a dissolution, by whomsoever they might be brou, forward ; and he trusted the meeting would see the absolui necessity for reserving to themselves the power which they hurried into r now possesse act which sl), 'ery careful not to do any ae control which they now msider the matter before The CIiAIRMAN 4illiligton v any motion to th to make? Mr. GaBIG said, the rootlet so soon as a certain gentle the questions nounced h mtentiol ), through the public prints right he sent, and it would have an explanation, because much rr Send upon in which he'criminated others along with hinise: Mr. PORTER.—Who do you mean? Mr. GREIG said he meant Mr. Richard Roberts. If that person was not heard, he (Mr. Greig) should bring forwarc a distinct motion against the dissolution. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN explained that the object of the meeting bareholder who was to ascertain whether there would propose the dissolution of the company Mr. GREIG seriously hop, . so remarkably foolish as to propose such a ..._ should consider such a man fit only for a lunatic asylum. Mr. CURTIS said there were three parties whose conc. in this unfortunate concern might be called in question. '1 shareholders had not acted in a manner in which they oug, to have acted, and they ought to bear the portion of blana, which justly attached to them. The general body of direc tors were also to blame ; but, most of all, the managing com mittee, by whom the great interests of the concern had been grossly, shamefully, managed—in fact, he could not find words to express adequately the opinion he had of their con duct. (Hear, hear.) But still the shareholders free from blame. lie was not going to palliate the c 0,., of the directors ; but as just and honourable men, the share holders should take their proper share of blame for not seein , the concern conducted properly. The reports annually pr , rented to them by the directors had not been framed I , cordance with the deed of settlement ' • and Cm, _ had been content to receive them, without looking na. to see whether they were in accordance, provided there v en- f good dividend. The directors were also themselves mu that no al !holder would 't re not shareholders blame for not seeing the deed of settlem carried out in ti outset. (Hear, hear, hear.) H early part of the history of the hi had stated that in the first report or two no estimate was made of the probable amount of loss which might accrue from the then current accounts. Not having be come a shareholder himself till 1836, and not having the reports in his possession, he could not say whether such was the case ; but in the reports which he had, since 1836, no such mention was made except on two occasions. Mr. Curtis then went through the reports of 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, and 1840, with a view of proving this statement. The report of 1836 stated that the rn directors, after having pro vided for all bad debts and the existing engagements of the bank, were enabled to set aside £46,000 clear profits for dividends. Now, the first duty was to enquire whether the directors at that period had applied all their energies to ascer tain whether that report was true or not. Let the meeting know the instructions given to the had been accruin balance sheet; because if the bad del since before June, 1836, then their fair share of blame s be appropriated to the directors, and not exclusively to the Committee of Management which more recently had been engaged in the management of the bank ; but, upon the other hand, if that report were correct, the managing direc tors, since that period, must be charged with having been the parties wilfully to waste and squander the money of the shareholders.—(Hear, hear.) In the report for 1837, it did not appear that the directors had examined themselves into the existing liabilities of the bank; and iu those for 1838 and 1839, no allusion was made to the subject. The. share holders having had their attention called to the subject of the liabilities in the report of 1837, and taken no steps, were, to a certain extent, to blame. There was in the report for 1840 a statement, which, if the facts could be provd, would exonerate the directors previous to 1837, and throw the blame at once upon the Managing Committee since 1837. This statement was to the effect, that the entire amount of t' bad debts before 1837—and those since had been dedu from the reserved surplus fund—which. left that fun, £36,642 9s. 10d., which was " an ample guarantee agaii. existing risks and liabilities." The first duty of the meetin k was to enquire whether this statement was correct, and by whom it had been prepares d. Was it true or was it false? The CHAIRMAN, in answer, had no hesitation in saying, that all the reports submitted to the directors previous to the annual meetings, were prepared by the managing direc tors ; and of course, the one referred to was prepared by them. (Hear.) Mr. CURTIS.—But of course those under instructions given by the general Mr. CHAPPELL.—No, no. (Hear.) reports were made Mr. CURTIS would then ask what the duties of t tors were ? He called for the resolution of the gene to be read appointing the managing committee, instructions given to them. The CHAIRMAN said the books should be sent f duties of the directors were laid down in the deed ment.; and they vested in the committee of mai certain powers, which were therespecified. Mr. CiIJILTIS . said he should likewise structions given to the auditors. The CHAIRMAN said there were no particular instruction to the auditors. As soon as the directors knew that one fourth of the capital was lust theyto?lc . !neasures for callini ish to the present meeting Mr. CURTIS said that fact, when only ot whole of it was lost. it v shareholders that the cause of The nnsma affairs of this company snould be investigate( he believed, had not, when they were appointed, made them selves acquainted with their duties; and he asked the Chair man whether, when he was appointed, he had tal---- trouble to read the deed of settlement ? The CHAIRMAN replied that he had endeavoure conscientiously to understand " Mr. CURTIS —Then has it not occurred to you that the balance sheets, containing no estimate of probable loss upon current accounts, were not i settlement? The CHAIRMAN said, he did not know that that particular clause had occurred to him ; and it was not surprising that it had escaped his attention, when it had escaped the atten tion of the other directors. Mr. J. C. DYER said, that at the last annual meeting, in answer to the same question from Mr. Sanders, he had him self replied that it was a matter which had all along been overlooked. (Hear, hear.) The omission did not then seem a matter of blame, as was evinced by the fact that 0 - d received the thanks of the F . arei 'tiers at (Oh, oh.) He laid no str , s upon t directors ha, nareholders at t thought that Mr tis should con Mr. Wit self to the present delinquencies Mr. CURTIS said, in conclusion, he considered the sliay holders were to a certain extent to blame for what had ha pened. (Cries of " No, no.") Mr. GREIG contended that the blame rested not with th shareholders, but with certain designing directors, who had misled them. The books would shew who had proposed and seconded the expulsion of Mr. Wood ; and who had proposed and seconded the resolution, which was synonymous to ex pelling Mr. 011ivant. As soon as he had heard the written defence of Mr. Roberts, which had been prepared by a so licitor of Manchester, he should be prepared to bring charges, not only against that person. but against others, now present, which charges he would substantiate. (Load calls for Mr. Roberts.) __., , . • n Mr. CHAPPELL explained that a declaration exacted from all the officers of so, 'which he signed. management did not am leagues likely to be profitable, and he propose( Mr. Luwi kfter he came into tl. r to him a t what period? Mr. CHAPPELL — From 1836 to 1837. A ( place upon it, but no charge was made because fidence in the managing director a managing directorcolildknow the exact he could see no account whatever Mr. SANDERS said that imputation and blame had heel cast upon the proprietors for not having searched into thus matters; but it would be recollected that at the meeting las year he himself took a prominent part in doing so, bein satisfied, from what he had heard, that the losses the banl had sustained must have been much greater than the director stated. He pressed for a committee of enquiry; but it me with the most decided opposition on the part of the directors who said they must either have the whole confidence of th shareholders or none whatever. The statements on that oc casion of Mr. Chapple had great weight with him. He (Mr Sanders) was sneered at when he hinted that the bad debt might be £200,000 ; but the event proved that the amoun was infinitely greater. Mr. CHAPPELL said he was guided by the statements t the other directors, in whom he had implicit confidence How could he do otherwise than place confidence in sue names as the -following—John Browne, Evan Evans. NY Birt, E. Burdekin—(oh, oh) --Richard Roberts—Cob, oh)- - Cooke, Rev, and J. B. Smith? (Hear.) In then names he had implicit confidence; and if he could hav spared more money. •frorri- his, business. he .should have is , vested it in the bank. He had sold out of several concern for the sole purpose of placing the money in the bank, an that would show his confidence in the integrity, honour, an ability of those gentlemen. (Cheers.) Mr. SANDERS said, then the directors were highly culpab] in making statements upon their own responsibility whic they did not know to he true from actual investigatioi They had thereby lulled suspicion. at a time when great (Mager O vented probably. The prop be accused of being backward in ex the account of Richard Roberts, sufficient data to prove that it had been ably since the last annual meeting—a circumstanc would have been prevented if the committee had been pointed, for which he (Mr. S.) had moved. He had se remarks to make relative to Richard Roberts ; but as t person was present he would reserve them. Mr. SAMUEL WALKER moved, and Mr. CURTIS secon( the resolution—that Mr. Richard Roberts be requested enter upon his explanation forthwith. This resolution was carried unanimously, amidst cheers and some exhibition feeling which the Chairman repressed. Mr. RICHARD ROBERTS then came forward and deiive a written address of very great length, which he refused furnish to the press. It would occupy, if given at teal, nearly three columns of the Standard. It commenced v an acknowledgment of the importance of this matter to character—that upon the way in which he c ordeal depended whether his ch, came a burden to himself, or wh but an unfortunate man. There were four charges made against him, and he shout broadest outline. Thefirstwas, that the m pared and laidbefore the board of directors fairs of the Bank on the3OthJ un the annual meeting in October condition of the Bank, knowin; and therefore a deceit and wilful imposition, fir credulity and confidence of the directors, and sec the credulity and confidence of the shareholders. charge was that at a preliminary meeting of the sh held at the Clarence Hotel, on the Ist of October a ly convened by Mr. S. H. Norris be had made the same statements, knowing them to be false. The third ch was, that he was indbted to the bank a very lar, he had made use of his station as Maaagir to employ to his own benefit very largesums which but for circumstance he could not have had, and he thereby becot__ _ plunderer of the funds of the bank. The fourth charge w that he was one of those directors to whom Mr. Walker cor municated his opinion of the character and conduct of t' late manager (Burdekin), and that he took no steps to di place him. Besides these four charges there was one othe rather incidental than direct, which was, that he had ma statements with regard to the prosperity and condition of t bank calculated to inspire confidence in the value of t knowing at the same time •that Mr. Roberts then proceed ter WA! r he rE was preset) .ouymc uch statements were not true charges, contending, in general terms, that he was not liable to the imputation of wilful fraud or negligence, but only to errors of judgment ; and that his best energies had been devoted to the promotion of the prosperity of to bank. A document of such great length, and of con siderable intricacy, and of which we have been refused a copy, of course we cannot pretend to give eve in outlir loberts Mr. Jenner, of Liverpool loin be d J. C. DYER, i Dssly deceived iy: the reports of the managi Mr. OLLIVANT narrated the circumstane him to mo n the matter principal o the disgraceful tr of the managing committee accepting cl frona - Heron, and state of I ,ement it of the On the 31st De- ,876 15s. 2d., (hear, hear ;) in D ased to £235,580 12s. ld. (Hea r, 1842, when he (Mr. Smith) to( ( Hear, hear.) Still th I to the sum which they ,f ITII the 150,159 19s, n December, 1841, it was s, 1842, it was 1374,669. called for the account of 11 Ir. Richard ie from him to the on the 30th Dec the 30th June, 1841, £78,822; in December, 1841, £83,996; and in. May, 1842, £72,701 (hear, hear.) Mr. NORRIS charged the anaging directors with fraud ,y ; and be called .mounts to be read which - li to them irectors out of th the rate o' th react the statemen Bannerman had ree a it appeared that £9B 10 0 560 10 6 799 11 0 18 0 0 91 0 0 214 0 0 54 0 0 308 12 0 116 0 0 81 0 0 108 10 0 126 10 0 8000 7 10 0 226 0 0 Mr. Cooks Mr. Dyer Mr. Evans Mr. Hall Mr. APLaren Mr. 011ivant Mr. John Potti Mr. Prince chard Roberts Mr. Smith 1840 0 1, 1141 16 0 71 10 0 Mr. Spencer £6,000 0 0 ORRIS contended that it would have been cheaper •e efficient to have had an efficient director at a If further discussion, in which there was a imination, took place, and at half-past rive ed five hours and a half,) (after haN the meeting was adjourned to that day three months WIGAN BOROUGH SESSIONS Monday, (yesterday) iunts of inquest, held apopie Aid one every inqulr y read The Recorder in Jum ted his quarterly ice the lasi borough s Mr. JAMT )Chaff of t ose and said, he had the honour to appear on rporation of Wigan, to object to the payment tias in the coroner's account, being the fee field on the body of Mr. William Cartwright, tion of God. The objection was, Id the inquest, not being to hold one, inasmuch I death. • Mr. Cartwright had died on by virtue of his offic ie party c of the heart, which was most likely to cause his death suddenly, and his death did actually take place as was expected. for he was found dead in bed. It might be said, that Mr. Cartwright had expressed himself better the day before his death ; but it was a very common circumstance for persons thus afflicted to feel so. That the coroner could not have interfered unknowingly was quite clear. He did not even wait as he ought:to do, until the peace-officers gave him information, or some persons residing in the immediate neighbourhood where the death occurred. ° He was not prepared to say, the coroner should not interfere inquest his duty generally to go and where a violent or .cers of the place would be most likely to receive information of the fact; and sup posing the coroner did make an ex-officio inquiry, he ought to act with the greatest discretion, and make every inquiry would b, arch out t self into the family of the deceased. then read an extract from Jervis. or coroners, showing that it was not ne( ed by tt he death nedical ) neces v Dr. .. 1 might any time that he would not inquest, .and notwit nquest. After :somt leman read extract 57 - dies by the like; nor in any necessarily to obtrude families, for the purpose of instituting neral, wait until they are sent Nhere the violent, or an inquest." In r .ord Eilenborotmh 1, in g many instances of coroners A the most vexatious and op- elves into private fanii- and discomfort, without any died otherwise than a natural died from natural causes, and upported icefrom the chief const ledical man, that there was no neces- he coroner) then contended that having about the case, he considered it necessary in compliance with the advice of his legal ured him that he would be )Id the inquest, as an in- ), who lly if he refit, quest was held on his (Mr. Greenough's) father died in his own arms, and not found dead in bed though he Other instances were ness, and in tii aced of parties dying after a few days' ill presence of their families, whilst their were in the room. Knowing also that he engaged the day befog and that Dr. Stuart the previous night, as late as lase, and also that he had been manager of Messr lor's factory, Sad hot seen him for more than two that he went to bed well, and was found dead in aio consid told that the deceased had e, which he was able to prove. rge quantity of fox :ard to Mr. Jam( anon as to intruding d's family, he had acted with the greates ❑n to Mrs. C. offering to take her de id when the jt, dewed th r the annoyance of called to establish the statements o consulted diffe to Mr. James, a. quesuvu., , observed, that such as the law, bad and unsatisfactory as it was ; and he sitting "-- Inw_ was bound to administer it as be Id wish it might disapprove of it .eafter, then, hold any a sudden one, and :'Ormation of the police, who ought to be more into the different cases coming under coroner, therefore, was not entitled to the fee for the Or EVENING, Nov. 4.—The Rev. D., Master of Trinity College, was hancellor of the University. ay elected Vi ht reduction was made in the price of butchers' meat tic-on-Tyne, on Saturday last, the prime joints of sold at 60. and of mutton at . sld. per lb. lerstood that the Proprietors of the Clarence Rail promptly and readily respohded to the call made )on them for the amount necessary to free the undertaking et twin om the proceedings of the Exchequer Loan Commissioners ; id that within a few days possession will be restored to the tugglers, David Berry, William Bowles, Fran- John Clark, William Alore, William Francis, r, and William Cakebread, captured by her nue cutter Vigilant, on Sunday, the 3th ult., Foreland, in the smack Warwick, of London, uablc cargo of East India cheroots, contained in Cockerell ith a va The smu id been 'DIE It lg loss to the Exchequer, if this voyage ful, would have been upivards of £1,200 ,CAN. AIAC Many persons' attention has probably, drawn to certain most malignant mid injuri- • 'us aspersion;; which have been circulated with more or less xplieitness, upon the character of a lady of high rank and conduct of a younger member of the royal family. We ouslv abstained fri have ourselves seri in the full belief that they were—wh to be—simply false and scandalous MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.--S hAtn, the Lord Chancellor, and triO ministers left tow❑ on Wednesday, ; o'clock, in a special train, by the Gt m mentioning them, hey have turned out should we now e calumnies the ful which language ad- R.. Peel, Sir J. Gra f the other cabinet quarter before two Western Railway, to 1 the Privy Council to be held at Windsor at half-past lamation was agreed upon 'otn the 10th inst., to some There will be a further anged, the legislature will business until the usual r proro; • f Irin; of Doce DARING 'RISONERS PROM January or be aning of Christ- le to re _., ~.co Prisoners thencOn- fined in Windsor gaol, vi ho had been sentenced at th e l as t quarter sessions for the borough to transportation—the one for ten the other for seven years. Tire attempt at rescue by their confederates bad so nearly succeeded that the fellows outside had ascended as far as the windows of the cell (on the first floor) in which they were confined. The gang out ide, consisting of five, were, however, fortunately seen by a ersc 'lassing at the time (between five and six o'clock in he e , who immediately gave the alarm to Mr. Simms, he g ' ,, u - 1 the attempt was frustrated, but the aug off. It is known that these fellows sere ' exrm . i ned gang of their es from Ux gidg, connected with one of the convicts. the p . s, were fully aware of the intended attem . They had been heard talking to theme 'le same cell, who they supposed to be ast Here is but one fellow here, and if he is i _ _.. .settle him." The two convicts have t 1 since removed to the hulks at Woolwich aoler, by 'v it appe he is not quiet, welt s )ther c Coroners one v isitation of Got LI death the case of I also ouser having exe pressive CORRESPONDENCE HEAR THE CHURCH." TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Whether or not Dr. Hook was " the original inventor of the text ' Hear the Church' in its isolatedibrm,” affects in e charge I advanced against him and Mr. Sherlock, io wise t rt taking unwarrantable license with Scripture, in represent ng these words to convey an express Scriptural command : his I substantiated by a simple analysis of the passage ; and ny letter was confined. Now, yo - ur cor ras," writing avowedly " in answer to" verlooked this altogether. Church autho- to this excl ponder rity is t ect of his reply, whereas my letter is one of criticism only, to expose and protest against what I proved to be a deceitful handling of the Word of God. In this, Dr. [look may have copied from another, as Mr. Sherlock also may have copied from him. gno se nomine quisquc tuetur, without at all touching the point of my argument, or weak ening the force of my remarks: for Dr. Hook is certainly f and seriously to blame, for p re fi x i ng i n hi s sermon , alluded to in my former-letter, a Scripture reference to words which as used by him, do not occur in the Book of God Having expressed no opinion before on tl tbiect of church authority, I do not feel called upon to express one ice the passages cited by " Clericus, ' farther ak him for that from the " Confession of Farrar, Coverdale, $ e., Sre.," which supports to the utmost my exposition of the passage under review; quoting, and applying it correctly and without mutilation, "7f he will not now, or to notice the than to tha"• Hoop church, let him be to thee as an heathen." will pardon me, I trust, for remarki " Clericus conclusion, that, in the present controversy about cCurch principles (the chrrent of which is deepening and its charac ter becoming more sifting every_day), little service will be done to the cause of truth by that kind of habitual knowledge (as Mr. Locke calls it) which insists upon conclusions, while it is unable to refer to the proofs; nor will the case be much mended by a man's searching to multiply passages, either wholly irrelevant to the question at issue, else, like Mrs. Malaprop's polite arguments, that lend as much support to the cause of his opponent as to his own. I am, sir, yours, &C., [We wish all our correspondents would " stick to their text" like "A. M." It would avoid much trouble, and be far more likely to have a convincing tendency.—En.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sin,—Will some of your numerous readers oblige me with an answer to the following question :—Suppose I buy 100 bars of gold, at the rate of 2 for £lOOO, 100 ditto, at the rate of 3 for £1000; and sell 200 bars at 5 for £2OOO. Shall I gain or lose by the transaction, and why ? Yours respectfully, ith Nov., 1842. ARITHMETICUS. WHAT IS THE CHURCH ? TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, —Will you permit me to ask any, or all, of your cor respondents, who are now so frequently making- use of the term—" The Church,"—what is the Church? I more especially ask " Mr. Sherlock," " A. M.," and " Clericus." Bishops, priests, and deacons, clergy, and laity, all make use of the term, and yet their writings, speeches, &c., evidently imply that many of them differ materially in the sense they attach to it. " Our Mother, the Church ;" " Hear the Church ; " " The Church ; " " Our Holy Mother," &c. &c., are terms in frequent use, and seem to vary in application and meaning according to the writers and speakers using them, so that 1, and many other Christian men who are not much skilled in learning are really puzzled to know—what the Church is. Therefore, Mr. Editor, I beg to ask your correspondents— what is the Church ? I want a Scriptural definition of the question, and a Scriptural proof of such definition; any other, of course, could not satisfy. " Clericus " seems to be a learned man ; also "A. M, ; " and " Mr. Sherlock " has evidently read a good deal ; I hope that one of them at least will kindly gire.himself the trouble to answer my question. [think, also, that by having this question clearly defined a great deal of misapprehension would be got rid of amongst im, &c., opposing partie A CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHRISTIAN November 7, 1842 The Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness have arrived at Auckland Castle, on a visit to the Bishop of Dur ham, after having spent a week with Earl Gray at Howick. Prime wedder mutton is now selling in Bisho?-Wearmouth at 4}d. per lb. ; and on Saturday last, in the market of Sun derland, an inferior, but wholesome kind, was selling as low as 3d. and 21d. There has not been a marriage or funeral in the populous town of Darlington for upwards of a fortnight : such an oc currence has not taken place for the last fifteen years. In October, 1841, there were thirty-nine funerals, and in the last:month only five. Lord Morpeth has arrived at Castle Howard; where it is ex pected he will spend the christmas with his relatives the Earl and Countess of Carlisle. It is stated that the Noble Lord is preparing for publication an account of his recent tour in America and Canada. The Marquis of Waterford has about 46,000 acres of land in the county of Derry, on which there are about 800 tenants, but until this season there had not been anything done by them in the way of draining their land on any regular system. By advice and encouragement, however, held out to them by Mr. Beresford, agent to the Marquis, upwards of sixty of the tenants have been and are thorough draining on Mr. Smith, of Deanston's system, and have already completed upwards of 16,000 perches of drains, filled with broken stones. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE : AN OFFICER DESERTING. — Captain Archibald Douglas, 49th Native Infantry, was, on Monday, brought up at Marlborough-street, attended by his friends and professional advisers, charged with being a de serter from the service of the Hon. East India Company. He was remanded till Friday, to procure the attendance of the captain of the ship in which he sailed to England and to supply other evidence. The proceedings on the part of the East India Company against Captain Douglas, for alleged desertion, were resumed on Friday. The captain was com mitted to prison upon the evidence, which will be sent to the Secretary at War, to decide on the committal by the magistrate. SINGULAR PLEDGE.—We have just heard the following story, but cannot vouch for its truth. A young woman wen into a pawnbroker's establishment, not many miles from Kilmarnock, the other day,:with a basket containing a quan tity of china, which she wished to pledge with " mine uncle" for two pounds. After examining the contests of the basket, he gravely stated he could only advance the half of that sum. In reply to his statement she said . she was aservant, and that the articles were the property of her mistress, whom she would require to consult before taking the money. She therefore let t the office for that purpose, and in a short time returned with the basket, saying that her mistress would take what was offered. " Mine uncle" again glanced into the depository of the precious ware, and saw that it appa rently contained the same goods that he formerly examined. The cash was then paid to the woman, who immediately left the house, and the case was then carefully set aside. In a short time afterwards a feeble cry was heard by the broker issuing from the basket, which he again examined, and in which, to his utter astonishment, he found a fine child care fully wrapt up in flannel, and over which a slight covering of china had been ingeniously placed for the purpose of decep tion. The pawnbroker, it is said, applied to the authorities for a nurse to the little pledge, but was told that, like other pledges, he was bound to keep it for twelve months, and, if not redeemed at the end of that time, to bring it to the ham mer, like other pawned property !—Ayr Observer. NEW ZEALANDERS, THEIR STATE AND PROSPECTS. — There is a striking peculiarity in the character of the New Zealanders which is very encouraging to the hope of their ultimate civilization—namely, the eager ness th ey h ave shown to visit foreign countries, and to see with their own eves whatever might gratify curiosity, or prove subservient to usefulness. Even in the days of Cook this spirit of research displayed itself ; and every one is aware of the difficulties which in more recent times have been overcome by these en terprising islanders in seekinean acquaintance with distant lands. Mr. Marsden remarks, "My opinion is, that if half the New Zealanders were to die in the attempt to force themselves into civil life, the other half would not be de terred from making a similar effort ; so desirous do they seem to attain our advantages." It is well known, too, that they are proud to array themselves in the dress of Euro peans, and endeavour, as far as they can, to imitate their manners, and even their modes of talking and thinking. The natives, so lately separated from the cultivated portion c f their species, not more by their geographical position than by the deep barbarism in which they ware involved, are 113 W brought into the light of knowledge and religion.: n n e no longer ignorant that there are other pursuits than those o war, and other enjoyments than those or revenge. Christi anity, which is in every sense of the word the religion of civilization, has gone forth among them attended by litera ture and the arts, and it is not possible that she should not eventually triumph over all the ignorance, prejudice, and ferocity with which she has here to contend. Such is the mild sway which her sublime faith is exercising over their minds, that it can hardly fail to restrain their destructive animosities, and abolith their sanguinary superstitions. Perhaps no feeling less ardent than a sense of religious duty could have supported the labourers in such a cause, sur _ rounded by the difficulties and discoma;ements which, met them at almost every step. But their task has gradually be come easier and more cheering ; while few gratifications can be equal to those which they must enjoy, when they con template, as the fruit of their efforts under a benignant Providence, a general amendment of manners and a great increase of comfort among the savage people whom they had undertaken to instruct. —Edinburgh Cabinet Library, No. XXVIII. Polynesia. t l i d 0 i t . i t t , TRIAL OF LINGUISTS.—A public, examination of the pro fessors of the living languages in Paris has j b u l s i t c h l e n e a n tr l u i c e the Sorbonne, by order of the Minister of p with a view to the granting a collegiate brevet u _ to those most • German, distinguished by acquirements and capa e c r i e ty. men e t x io a t m ied ine p d r , or b e u s t so t r o s Span ish, Italian, and English candidates w t i w :o l o eos n sa l r y psp. likely decide epa o 1., ' i 1 ti ,ot ttjl have etbzeondischarged.l Chiles (p re s theirid e n t ) , delicate E i i p n a t r e a r t e i s v t e . merits of the claimants were our readers the concursus of thielelacsotm issioners appointed choff, and °mum, e f o n r t ,e examination i n at urbanity. ion th trust with lean - The number who presented erifirst day was 4', but of these 10 speedily evacuated the field. themselves judgment, The ordeal was severe, the test comprehending an oral of English authors of the explanation of portions of. h e works highest class ; a discussion on (Le comparative merits of these writers, between the candid ates, o ne explaining certai n objecting and explaiflin abstruse or doubtful passages , a nother gin his turn. This argumentation was animated and interesting, to some displays of readineand lad e r emarkable readiness and erudition, and also to a few mis takes productive of much amusement. As an instance, we may state that one gentleman (whose claims are among the rejected ) , • translating from Shalisl ieare the phrase of C.:Uri°. lanes • , where he salutes the citizen in Antinni, with " Save you, Sir," rendered it by " Saurez-vous"—a reading which he stoutly defended, amid much hilarity on the part of the auditors. Another ordeal, perhaps the severest of all, was an extemporaneous lecture of half an hour's duration; to be delivered instanter to the assembly, without the slightest preparation, the su bject being drawn by chanc e from an urn which was plac ed on the table. The questions thus propounded may be J ud g ed of by one, which was " An pa rallel view of French an d English syntax, their analagi i I" ddifferences." This fell to the lot of a Mr. Dowlin g, - es - one of the successful candidate s, who showed in its treatm ent singu lar aptitude, powers of elucidation, and knowledge of the sub joct. Of the n umber of applicants, 1G only were admitted for the honour of the brevet ; and on the whole, this compe tition, though not without instances of ignorance and inca pacity, has been the means of exhibiting deep erudition and diversified and brilliant talent on the part of several of the professors in the highest degree creditable to that body. Th e successful candidates are—MM. Wats on, c ity of Orleans, and professor at the librarian of the Chur chill, professor at the College Henri !loyal College; Davist ; Booth ; Dowling, profess IV. ;B. Laroche ; laus ; Duharle, Drone!, Nicolar, or at the College Wil kinson,Stanis- Aubin, Canterel, Veyssier' Lerambert, Martin, Resee- Belie Isle. It has been remarkedDescombes, and only two of the English, colleges should have professors belonging to the ' Presented themselves Both these gentlemen he' for examination. Guiilmani i s messenger. nnurably distinguished themselves. ; to ted and lean that ;ad urse ty Is only ding hers, ,atea brew t hat 'work, the a the yard. she coat , r a l bY I not :tnale s her Mara )COn", gOO 4 Mr. P re" their it, in have ands. cone the ness , o the tions jjete , dee' ) f the )f th e a wes essea , 1r 1"'; Po rt i tber , rono s mia t th e brie rule d other — Th e rV 4111 9, rtir a tion I told !gh it Th e din"• 1110! ) ha d ; tha t Ince ° Pt a rc i° ;sa— 'her: ..ic.- the' nee t t 011 30 0- the