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din mtnt. MMONS—TgunsDA.y that he would put a question on Chelsea, Sir G. Larpent, Mr. Captain Plumridge, Mr. H. , and Mr. Attwood, as to whe ed into any arrangements with turn to that house ; and unless ...,.....•.: __ factorily answered, he would op rit for any place any of those hon. td they accept the Chiltern Hun- pies of circulars sent by the sec- iepartment to the various town lagistrates between the months of 841, requiring information as to the their respective towns. The hon. ppointment of 381 conservative ma , was uncalled for, and was resorted ng the conservatives the power of li . a view to electioneering pur ;ented, Gateshead, there were 1 was a conservative, and the Graham,) I Sad appointed six lessing Gateshead with icemen. By the course rporations were n the election of that the right hon. baronet rgument, as applicable to the t best was a bad t that a ' a course as that which he Id call the attention of the ;s under which he found the magis his entering office, and leave it at f by the course pursued he had for he right hon. baronet then enume ices stated by the Lord Chancellor ply to a similar motion made in the Marquis of Normanby. Amongst ristol, where the conservatives had vere so anxious to have conciliation 1 to Lord John Russell to nominate d twelve radical magistrates. The the desire of conciliation, upon which id of doing so he appointed the whole and only six of the conservatives. ss was preserved, it was, the semblance, as in the . ates in Norwich, three of of whom was paralytic, orehand that they would ;es were—one 86, another ee radicals were all active read a long list of towns, tagistracy appointed by the 1 re;pect to Gates- rvative; and under said that he was to t an evil l which struck at the foun tion of the law ? Why had Nard a motion upon which aken, instead of a trumpery impossible to refuse I He ,at in very few cases indeed had the changed by those appointments, and ;cial reasons could be assigned. The pal magistrates in the kingdom was 45 were whig-radicals and 629 con ; the balance to the whig-radicals. In )bserve that he had not heard, as yet, strates whom he appointed had been tson. Whatever he might have done st to the magistracy to quoque argument fell to d yet the right hon. The case hat of the right intments were made vea veto to ti: Le crown on ►ls, a power which, of nit some substantial rea baronet had made his ap t having been the slight- ministration of justice in at in Hull the interests of jus course pursued by the late go. om Mr Capt. Mangles, and various effect produced on their re ntments both of the late go- Berkeley, Arr, course pursued, and said that ad taken great pains to ascer ie appointed, he yet took no ,f justice should be above sus tance, he had appointed four e silk-throwsters or cotton oinistration of justice be un o payment of wages came_ be- who had a - manifest interest in deei- the conduct of Sir James Graham I of by viewing these appointments IT, and Captain FITZROY ,er which. the inference to be drawn Graham was that partisanship Age of the fitness of par- before the house totally ery small motion, but a for it was a complaint wit, and yet the house for . the paper moved refused. He was not satis- James Graham to the charge " I admit I have not acted nment did infinitely worse." Len the radicals should come F of triuraph would surely corne— a set them, and what a number of t appoint in or der to swamp the ap es, whigs and conservatives. lie cation of the term whig-radical to ng used at all in cases like this. It laigs and tories, and the radicals had llness of the mo- tleman (Mr, iient to have frirned m to make his nd (Sir J. Graham), and lus to the noble lord near i for him the support of It . v;as im- is, with free institutions, to es isanship ; and while he admitted possible, avoided, he must say Bent was quite consistent with t rest the defence of the govern gument. The fact was this. The •eponderance of the magistracy of the sake of the administration of y to correct the evil. This was a ying, as was imputed to his right We know we have done wrong, vorse." In Manchester, Leeds, 1, there were 118 magistrates, of s and 98 liberals. Was it right the administration of justice this flitted to remain, or because they to remedy the evil, they were to ed all conservatives, and with y resorting to the to quoque lic , htest degree apprehensive would form of the course appointments ; and with it was admitted on all hands per persons for the office. n their I that Mr. Hutt was pursuing pre mrsued by Sir R. Peel himself in ring fora specific opinion of the which could not be refused. It explanation, when they found on :hat 400 magisterial appointments =her in existence was fully suffi of justice. The principle upon s somewhat dangerous. If it was of be safely administered when Li of one way of thinking in po the state of the country when er and found the great mass of ;pout the kingdom, tories—the han that upon which Sir James nice ? The fact was, that the ich as would do justice to every her whig, tory, or radical, nions they held themselves. vas good for anything they ch and appoint some tories sin the Common Pleas, and pointments which he In the a, roceeded on the recommendation a total exclusion of the conser- calculated to give rise to ; the balance he had in seve ect theexclusiveness of town ad been said that his political very different to what they is he was not conscious, for tich he could accuse him is was in former years when 3 commonly brought use favour he had n, in which Mr. Williams, Mr er hon. members took part, motion was agreed to. .d until Tuesday his motion for e amendment of the laws relating _ ........,....ob, OUSE OF I,OIIOS.—PRIDAY. ons were presentedse by the Bishop of Noßwic!l, some c upon the employment of el:111- nd other mines. rose to redee m a pledge he had ,f Parliament, by introducing a he cerrupt, illegal, and uncon d to in the election of members se of paqiarnent. He Would lay paratory to .the appointment of a second reading of the bill he Would , ularly. Its main provisions, hove ommittee of either house of par , by giving effectual protection to them, and also to p Trsona who, ght have evidence given against be unqualified, but the corn the discretion of extending that end to t is were presented, after -FRIDAY ierable excitement, in loebuck gave on uestions of several lection com ;id said that o a close by a secret compro )n to ask Lord Chelsea if he 11 Hundreds, in order to the question atisfied with the answer, and question to Mr. C. Russell. right of the hon. membei to If he had not agreed that he I it, or thereabouts, a ccept of I put a Dp to the pro• ui of that ar. aae, and he was by no means [Anent part of the evening the tics has the We ' gallant officer said that he had never given one farthing in the shape of a bribe, either directly or indirectly, and that he never would. His election, as far as he was concerned, was as pure as that of the hon. member for Bath. Mr. ROEBUCK thanked him for his candid answer, and then asked Sir John Hobhouse whether it was not arranged, respecting the Nottingham election, that a sum of money should be paid down to stop the inquiry, and whether a fur ther sum of money was not to be paid in order to let a certain gentleman walk over the course. Sir J. HOBHOUSE declined to answer the question. Mr. ROEBUCK then put a similar question to Mr. Elphin stone, who said, in reply, that there had been a compromise, but he was no party to it. Mr. ROEBUCK next applied to Major Beresford, who said he declined to answer the question of the learned inquisitor. Mr. ROEBUCK then asked the Speaker if it was competent for him to move for a committee of privilege before the house proceeded to the business of the evening, and was replied to in the affirmative. Sir R. PEEL was anxious to proceed with the income tax committee, and hoped the hon. member would postpone his motion until Monday. It appearing, however, to be the wish of the house that Mr. ROEBUCK should proceed, he entered upon the sub ject accordingly. He said he was induced to bring forward the present motion, which he knew was somewhat extraordi nary, because he had grave reasons for suspecting that the hon. members for Harwich, Nottingham, Penrhyn and Fal mouth, Reading, and Lewes, were open to accusations of bribery and corruption. The hon. member referred to the details of some of those cases ; but when he came to Not tingham, he said he understood that the entire constituency had been bought and sold ; bought by Sir J. Hobhouse and Sir G. de H. Larpent, and sold to Mr. Walter, who was to be allowed, for a specified sum agreed upon, to obtain the seat to be vacated by one of the sitting members. The hon. and learned gentleman concluded by moving for a committee of privilege, and called upon Sir J. C. Hobhouse to second the motion. Mr. FITZROY seconded the motion, and repudiated the charge of bribery and corruption, as applied to him, as a foul calumny. H e was fearless of the result of the investigation of the committee. Mr. C. W. WYNN said the question was one deeply in volving the honour of the house. It was of the greatest im portance that it should be well considered, and he therefore moved the adjournment of the debate until Monday next. After some further observations the adjournment was agreed to. The house then resolved itself into committee on the In come Tax Bill. On clause 96 being proposed, Mr. HUME moved that the profits of persons in trade, on which the income tax should be levied, should be estimated by those of the preceding year, and not by the average of the three years preceding. On a division the amendment of Mr. Hume was negatived by a majority of 76 to 27. On the 188th clause being proposed, to the effect that the tax remain in force until the sth of April, 1845, Mr. Hra.sE moved that it should continue in operation for one year only, instead of three years. On a division, Mr. Hume's motion was negatived by a majority of 174 to 52. kr. ft. YORKE moved a clause to the effect that attorneys should be exempted from the payment of their certificate du ties during the period they were subjected to the income tax. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the mo tion on the ground that if all persons were allowed to deduct the amount of their other taxes from the income tax they were called upon to pay, the latter tax would be very unpro ductive. After some conversation the committee divided, and Mr. Yorke's motion was negatived by a majority of 183 to 18. Mr. DUNCOMBE moved a clause to the effect that the non payment of the income tax should not disqualify the voters in boroughs from being placed on the registry, or voting at elections for members of parliament. Sir R. PEEL said he was not desirous of imposing any new restrictions upon the exercise of the elective franchise, and would, therefore, inquire if the non-payment would dis qualify the elector, and if so, he would take care that a clause should be introduced to guard against such an occurrence. The whole of the clauses having been disposed of, the house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on Monday. The Other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION COMMITTEE CLOSE OF THE PROCEEDINGS The committee re-assembled on Friday at the usua l hour. Mr. Austin said, that after the committee yesterday came to their resolutions, he and his learned friends held a consul tation, and the result was, they had advised their clients not to proceed with the other petition. Mr. Cockburn then applied to the committee to declare the last election void. The room was cleared, and on strangers being re-admitted, the chairman announced that the committee bad resolved,— " That the last election of burgesses to serve in parlia ment for the borough of Southampton was a void election. " That the committee had determined to report specially to the house. That Charles Coombes Callen was bribed with the sum of £lO paid to his wife for him. " That Joseph Whitmarsh was promised a bribe of ;£lO, the whole or some part of which was afterwards paid. " That Joseph Redwards was bribed with the sum of £5. " That William Andrews was bribed with the sum of £3. " That Giles Pasquin was bribed with the sum of £3. . _ " Each of them to vote for Lord Bruce and Mr. Charles Cecil Martyn. " That the evidence given before this committee relative to an extensive system of treating carried on through the means of local associations ; the payment of large sums to chairmen and colourrnen, many of whom were voters ; and the expen diture of a sum of money for the purposes of the election, amounting to nearly £5OOO, and therefore far exceeding the ordinary and regular legal expenses, is deserving of the serious attention of the house. " That the committee feel that they have been prevented ascertaining the exact mode in which this mouey was ex pended, by the loss and destruction of vouchers and other documents connected with those payments, particularly in the case of William Rouse Mabson, who, after having been served with the speaker's warrant, disposed of those in his possession." The committee then separated. THE BRIGHTON ELECTION RETURN OF THE CONSERVATIVE CANDID ATE BRIGHTON, MAY 6.—Between five and six o'clock this morning the conservatives sent their bands round to arouse the electors and prepare them for the victory which awaited them. Lord Alfred Hervey took the lead the first half hour of polling, and swelled his majority every quarter of an hour to such an extraordinary extent that the most sanguine of his supporters were perfectly astonished. At five o'clock this afternoon the returning officer declared the state of the poll as follows : Lord A. Hervey (Conservative) 1,277 (Loud cheers). Harford (Whig) 640 (Groans). Brooker (Chartist) l6 (Laughter). Lord A. Hervey, the declaration having been made, said this was a proud day for him, and for the Conservative party, who brought him forward, and to the latest period of his existence he should never forget the kindness and the courtesy by which he had been received by gentlemen of all political opinions, and the warm and zealous support which he had obtained from the kind friends who had placed him in his present triumphant position. (Cheers.) He considered this not as a personal triumph only, but a triumph also of politi cal opinion. He had told them in his canvass that while he should be most anxious to remove every practical grievance, and to reform all real abuses, he should feel it to be his duty to oppose all measures calculated to destroy and not to im prove the British constitution. His lordship then repeated his determination to support the present Government, and to promote all their local interests, and having again re turned thanks bowed himself from the hustings. Mr. Harford and Mr. Brooker also addressed the electors, who then quietly dispersed. A most extraordinary change has taken place in the poli of this borough. From rampant radicalism the borough become conservative, as will be seen by a comparison of numbers at the last general election and the present one subjoin the numbers of the last election : Pechell (Radical) Wigney (Radical) .... Dalrymple (Conservative) 1,443 1,235 872 THE STATUES OF THE MARTYRS, CRANMER, RIDLEY, AND LATIMER. We briefly noticed in our last the safe arrival of these statues from the studio of the late Sir Frances Chantrey. They were executed from the designs as well as models of Henry Weekes, Esq., to whose powers of thought, classical taste, and admirable workmanship that great sculptor, by his last will, entrusted the completion of his professional engage ments. It might have been feared, from Sir Francis's ina bility to give to the work the benefit of his genius, that we should have had to regret the loss. But of the scholars' knowledge and feeling, and his adoption of the feelings and purposes of the Committee, have given to the statues of these holy men aspects and attitudes most characteristic, not only of their mental and moral endowments, but of their peculiar acts and offices in the work of the Reformation. The venerable Cranmer bears on his left fore-arm that sacred volume which, in his preface, he calls " light in dark ness, food in hunger, and in coldness, fire." The edition is noted by a deep cutting in its cover, " Maye, 1541." It was the year which witnessed the first positive and peremp tory circulation of the Bible through the parishes of England, under a notification of the royal authority on its title-page. It may be recollected that the foundation stone of the Mo nument was laid in May, 1841—three hundred years after wards. This donum regium was obtained at the earnest intercession of the Archbishop. It was therefore due to his piety and patriotism to exhibit in the most expressive way his special claims upon the gratitude and veneration of our Church and country. It is known that it was one of the misfortunes which clouded the early rising of the light of the Reformation that there were differences of opinion upon matters which have long ceased to disturb and distract men's minds—the law fulness of official vestments. Bishop Hooper was with diffi culty prevailed upon to conform and wear " the rochette, surples, cope," at his consecration, according to the ritual of 1549. But the mind of Bishop Ridley, entirely occupied upon his perilous conflict with the enemies of the Gospel, did all he could to prevent these vestiary questions from creating differences among those who were ready not only to be bound, but to die for the name of Christ. The robing of Ridley's statue indicates his constancy in this matter; it points out his undisturbed conformity with what bad become the law of the land in respect to episcopal apparel, whilst his bands, firmly locked together, his erect countenance, and well-balanced stability of body, aptly represent the firmness of his faith and the integrity of his confession. They suit the Confessor as well as Martyr, who said' " I believe the Holy Catholic or universal Church, which is the communion of Saints, the house of God, the City of God, the spouse of Christ, the pillar and stay of the Truth. I believe in the pious Rule of this Church, which is the Word of God." Corn third statue is that of Bishop Latimer : it faces the to the will o e f Y ri Market, and is the very image and representation of crossed over the" hul nilitY, or rather of old age, stooping under the burthen But there is also of four-scor ars, but mainly indicative of submissiveness the aged Latime r t , and of holy resolution to do it ; the arms you to be good t r oo ea s s a t y greatly aid the expression of humility. the look of that self-possession which enabled good memory, and to his disputatious Judge, " I pray an the better, I moist, for th is old man. Disputation requireth a marvellously weakened, and never erred, g l3 u and sp Both tu err. lyl , l .e hee P it ris o :. The Popish Church bath orex_iso:o mention made of any eat- , i . sh Church begat the error ' of transubstantiation. : - 1 - 1 - J a Herald. 1 ------ Itephen, and Robert The Earl of Devon, Hen Metford have been appointed i lln j m °l?l2 an inquiry into the late forgery of excheque r IMPORTANT TO OVERSEERS. -111 b oroughbills. 1 commissi on ers under the act for of Lich sivagbulthteo2..eisxthoi! field, two overseers neglected to make out aud e y, and each g t against municipal burgesses, and of course they were bit the list when demanded. Actions were brought each by a person named Gregory, defendant paid the fine of .E5O, for his neglect in not making out the list. Gre gory then brough t other actions to recover the like penalties for not exhibiting the list when an inspection was demanded, but the Court of Exchequer, on Monday last, decided that the actions for the second penalties could not be sustained, and gave judgment for the defendants. UNITED STATES. The nacket-ship New York, Captain Cropper, arrived at this port yesterday morning, from New York, with papers from that place to the 21st ultimo, being six days later than those brought by the Virginian, and the receipt of which we acknowledged in our last publication. The New York Herald of the 16th gives a list of the ves sels then in that port, from which it appears there are seventy ships, thirty-four barques, ninety-five brigs, and two hundred and fifty schooners in the city, and sixty-one, of all classes, lying at Brooklyn. One-third of these, it is stated, are lying idle. " with no captains, no crew, no freights, and no prospect of getting any for some time to come." Most of the number are for sale, though there are no buyers in the market. This leads to some reflections as to the probable cause of so much stagnation in trade. The packet-ship Sheridan arrived at New York on the 16th ultimo, and the Great Western steamer on the 17th, with the intelligence of the then proposed financial and commercial code of the new British government. Nothing had been heard of the Britannia at New York prior to the departure of the packet. The influence of the news from England was not very ap parent. Commercially, the state of affairs remained much the-same. Nothing appears to have arisen from Lord Ash burton's mission, though it is stated that Governor Fairfield was about to convene the legislature of the State of Maine, in consequence of despatches from his lordship, stating that he was fully authorised to settle the boundary question, and that there was every probability that this long disputed mat ter would soon be settled to the satisfaction of all parties. The Herald, after discussing the relative merits of the various ports in the country, as places for the departure of the steamers for the West Indies, or any port in America, gives a decided preference to Liverpool in every case. The Hon. W. Lawrence, a representative in congress, from Pennsylvania, died at his lodgings in Washington, on the 17th ult. The appropriation bill was taken out of the committee in the house of representatives, and reported for final passage on the 18th. A very exciting debate took place. A grand ball had been given at Washington to Mr. Clay, at which many of Lord Ashburton's suite were present. The fine packet-ship Louis Philippe, trading between Havre and New York, went ashore on the 14th ult., about 20 miles from Montank Point. She had 120 passengers on board, all of whom were saved. The cargo consisted of French dry goods, which it was expected would all be saved, though in a damaged condition. A much better feeling prevailed in the money market, and the stock market was more buoyant. It is said that the new English Tariff will be peculiarly beneficial to the western states. The reduction on tallow, lard, beef, and pork alone offers an immense outlet to those articles, of which the west has a superabundance. A. vessel was taking in, at New York, a cargo of raw cot ton for Canton. It is a low-priced cotton, laid in at 5 and 6 cents per lb. The latest news from Mexico states that the invasion of Texas, on the part of the Mexicans. was only a small in vasion. General Arista was at Monterrey, four hundred miles from the frontier of Texas. General Rafael Vasquez, commander of the expedition to Bexar, writes from the banks of the Rio Grande, under date March 11th, and gives an account of his retreat, which was effected without hindrance or molestation on the part of the Texians. He says that on his arrival near the Great River, so exhausted were the horses of his men, that had they been attacked, not more than forty of them would have been able to join in the charge. CHINA CIRCULAR TO HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN CHINA Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China has the pleasure to announce to her Majesty's subjects in China, that the dis trict cities of Yuyao, Tsikee, and Funghwa, distant respec tively 40, 20, and 30 miles from Ningpo, have been lately visited and temporarily occupied by detachments of her Ma jesty's combined forces. _ The Chinese government having thrown garrisons into the cities in question, and given out that the object in so doing was to encourage (or perhaps, more correctly speaking, to intimidate) the inhabitants of Ningpo and the surrounding districts to withhold obedience to the British authorities, and likewise to deter them, as far as possible, from furnishing provisions and supplies, it was resolved by their Excellencies the Naval and Military Commanders-in-Chief, to take an early opportunity of dislodging those garrisons; and on the weather (which had been extremely wet in the early part of December) becoming frosty and favourable for operations, the necessary arrangements were completed for carrying that resolution into effect. The Sesostris, Nemesis, and Phlegethon steamers, carrying about 700 men of all arms, and towing a number of boats, weighed from their positions at Ningpo on the morning of the 27th of December, and proceeded up the river. The former ship, owing to her greater draught of water, was obliged to bring up about two-thirds of the way to Yuyao, off which place the two smaller vessels anchored late in the afternoon, when the troops landed immediately under the personal directions of his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Gough, K.C.8., and, having taken possession of a small battery mounting four guns (which the Chinese had thrown up to enfilade the approaching reach of the river, but which they did not venture to defend), were lodged for the night in a large temple or josshouse, situated on a hill which over looked the town at the distance of less than half a mile. At daylight on the morning of the 28th his Excellency the naval Commander-in-Chief disembarked with the seamen and ma rines, and preparations were made for escalading, when some of the people came out and declared that the garrison (stated to have consisted of 1,200 regulars, and an equal number of militia) had quitted the town during the night, and that the gates were open. Our troops, in one division, and the sea men and marines in another, accordingly marched in, and separaed at the southern gate, to go round the town along the ramparts. When the naval division had advanced part of the Way, a fire of jinjalls and matchlocks was opened on it by a considerable body of Chinese soldiers, which had taken post outside the walls, at a spot near the north-west angle, where they were covered by a deep canal. It unavoidably occupied some little time for her majesty's forces to gain egress from the town by the northern gate, leading over the canal, and in the interim the enemy had decamped across the country. They were hotly pursued for seven or eight miles, during which numbers of them threw away their arms and heavy clothes. A. military position on which they retreated, about five miles from Yuyao, was burned, and a very eaten, sive barrack (temple), close to that town, containing a maga zine of gunpowder, and great quantities of arms, clothing, and other munitions of war, was subsequently set fire to and utterly destroyed. Twenty-eight prisoners were taken, amongst whom were several subordinate officers, and it is believed that from 75 to 100 of the enemy were killed and wounded during the affair. Had they only stood to allow her majesty's forces to close with them, not a man could have escaped; but their local knowledge of the roads, combined with the fact of the whole country being knee-deep with fro zen snow (which covered up and concealed the paths), gave them a decided advantage over their pursuers in their flight. On the 29th the city was examined, and an immense pub lic granary of rice discovered, and given to the inhabitants to carry away. On the 30th, the small steamers descended the river, and rejoined the " Sesostris ;" the three vessels anchored that afternoon on the nearest point to the city of Tiskee, which lies between four and five miles from the left bank, and which was found on the following morning (the 31st) to be deserted by the Chinese troops and all the civil authorities. The public buildings were here destroyed, as far as that could be done without endangering the town ; the population were permitted to take the grain from the govern ment granary, which was very large and quite full of rice ; and the combined forces having re-embarked, the steamers returned to Ningpo on the evening of the 31st December. It affords her Majesty's Plenipotentiary extreme gratifica tion to add, that not a single casuality occurred during these movements. Mr. Midshipman Lock, of her Majesty s ship Blenheim, was struck on the foot by a spent jinjall ball, but fortunately escaped with a slight contusion. The cold was intense during the whole period, the thermometer ranging at night ten and twelve degrees below the freezing point ; but, notwithstanding this fact, and the unavoidable exposure, the troops, seamen, and marines, all came back in the highest health and spirits. _ _ An unfavOurable break in the weather prevented the in tended movement on Funghwa being put into execution until the 10th instant. On that morning the Phlegethon and Ne mesis started from Ningpo, and were brought up by a bridge across the river about noon. The land forces, with the Lieutenant-General commanding, here landed, whilst the seamen and marines, under his Excellency the Admiral, went some miles further up the river in boats. The two divisions arrived simultaneously at the city of Fungewa about dusk, and found it deserted by the Chinese authorities and troops. The same steps as were adopted at Tsikee with regard to the public buildings and granaries were next morning adopted here, and the combined forces returned to the steamers on the afternoon of the 11th, and to Ningpo early on the 12th instant. Although these operations are of no moment considered in a military point of view, yet their moral and political effect is highly important, and on that account Her Majesty's Ple nipotentiary deems it expedient to make the result of them public. They evince our irresistible power, as well as extra ordinary forbearance so far as the people are concerned; and it has been ascertained, that such was the consternation on the news of the descent on Yuayo reaching the provincial capital of Hong-chow-foo (distant above 100 miles,) that Imperial commissioners and other Chinese officers fled from that city to Soochow, 90 miles further north. The Phlegethon steamer and Bentinck brig of war have just proceeded to examine and reconnoitre the bay of Hong chow-foo and the port of Chapoo. God save the Queen Dated on board Her Majesty's ship Blenheim, at sea, on the 24th of January, 1842. HENRY POTTINGER, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary THE TARIFF, -PRICES OF MEAT ABROAD We have pleasure in laying before our readers the result of some enquiries which we have felt it to be our duty to make, as to the prices of meat on the continent at this moment, more particularly in Belgium and on the coast of France ; from whence it is anticipated by some that large quantities of meat will be sent to the English market. We are most' glad to find that the anticipations, which we before expressed, are well founded, that no mischief can possibly arise to Bri tish agriculture by the proposed alteration of the tariff, as each of the countries, which is referred to, is an importing, not an exporting, country, and the distance of Hamburgh and the interior of Germany, from whence meat might be obtained at a rather cheaper cost, renders it impossible to import it to England except at an additional cost, which will, together with the duty, cause a price to the English consum ers little short—if any—of that which they now pay. BOULOGNE. Beef at present sevenpence per lb., of good quality. Gravy beef fivepence. Butchers supply a family with meat at sixpence halfpenny. Small quantities are charged sevenpence. No beef is fed in that part of France ; the principal supply comes from Belgium, and the week before last the price of beef from thence rose a halfpenny per lb. There may be an importation for a short time to England, but that will be checked by the necessary increase of prices, as there is a de ficiency rather than a superabundance of meat in those coun tries. In Ireland much better meat can be bought at fourpence halfpenny than is bought at Boulog ne at sixpence halfpenny an d sevenpence. The prices of meat here mentioned are according to the French pound of 17 ounces, but the English of 16 ounces has in it much more of nutr i tion. At Hamburgh beef is selling at sd. per lb. BELGIUM. The price of meat in Brussels now, subject to a duty on 25 centimes ; or its sale within the town of about a halfpenny the pound, is, of 2 lbs. 12 pence the kilograme . Beef-IMutton by the kilograme, being 2 lbs. of 17 oz t franc a same e 0 a c s e n b t e i e ro t. es ,vteoall is franc dearer. Outside the barrier, where it is not subject to duty, it is selling at 1 franc 10 centimes, or 11 pence for the kilograme of 2 lbs. During late years a large importation of oxen has taken place from Holland into Belgium. The price of a beast of about 800 lbs. is 500 francs, or £2O. from intora t h t l e eF r Of this, the duty and expenses are about 70 francs, or £3, so that the cost in Holland is 430 francs, or about £l7, y on ex tjie moree, whichthan fi i s v e o p n e e n ce reasonper lb. for t ßelgium heir i rn p o rtsendsimporting cattle Holland; and «k dut p i ) - oe - 1 ~itl% : n t oie l oy t el t dt h of i n r ro k rma i in thence . mttahbt that ti n dt gh o ee f Chroticle, e is to be rais • MISCELLANEOUS. The Nottingham election committee have declared Sir J. C. flobhouse and Sir G. G. Larpent duly elected for that borough. Lord Auckland has been requested by his friends in India to sit for his statue, to be placed beside those governors general who have preceded him. The venerable Earl Grey was among the equestrians, on Wednesday. on Constitution-hill, apparently in the enjoy ment of excellent health. NEW MA GISTRATE FOR CHESHIRE.—The lord lieutenant has placed on the commission of the peace for Cheshire, Richard Orford, Esq., of High-lane, near Disley. PUSEYISM.—The Bishop of Worcester has issued a letter to the Rural Dean of Birmingham, in which he forbids the public use of the term " Puseyite," as applicable to those en tertaining tractarian opinions. We regret to learn that " crows feet" have been scattered in the neighbourhood where the recent assemblage of nailors took place, for the purpose of laming the horses of the troop ers, one of which was picked up in the town of Stourbridge, having been brought to our office.—Worcester Chronicle. ARTESIAN WELL AT GRENELLE.—The sand and clay, which have so long rendered the water of the Artesian Well thick and muddy, appear to be completely exhausted, and for some weeks the flow has been uniformly as clear as well filtered river water.—.Athenmum. At a recent public dinner given at Brandenburgh the King of Prussia spoke as follows :—" We can never regret t h e d e b t of gratitude that Prussia owes to Russia. The Emperor of Russia is not only my ally, but he is the best and most inti mate friend I have. I may add, that he is the real friend of Prussia." We have been favoured with a letter from an officer of her Majesty's sloop Fantome, Capt. Butterfield, dated the 14th of February, off Ambrig, informing us that they had cap tured, on the 12th instant, two slave-vessels, one name un known, with 505 slaves, and the oth er th e Dili genc i a, w i t h 413 slaves on board. This makes 19 vessels captured, and 2,261 slaves liberated, by that vessel in the 20 months she has been employed on the coast of Angola. THETFORD ELECTION.—For this borough at the last general election there was a double return, Sir James Flower and the Earl of Euston being equal on the poll. A committee have declared the former gentleman duly elected, having placed him in a majority by knocking o ff one o f t h e voters for the Earl of Euston. Sir James is a strong con servative. A statistical table of the cotton manufactures of the United States shows an immense increase i n th e per i o d b etween 1831 and 1840: that in capital having been 7,299,317 dole. ; that in factories 198 ; spindles, 880,824 ; yards of cloth, 182,668,129; pounds of cotton, 45,095,824 ; value of manu factures, 18,280,143 dols. ; hands employed, 4,589 ; and amount of wages paid, 857,912 dole. In the imports of cot ton goods there had been a corresponding decrease; the ge neral result showed that they had not increased with a de creasing and low tariff, while home manufacture had increased 75 per cent., although the population had increased but 331 per cent. NEWSPAPER NOBODYISM.—A newspaper can, properly speaking, personally insult no one ; it may traduce, it may calumniate, it may injure, but it cannot personally insult, because to personal insult two parties are wanting--the man insulted, and the man insulting, and from whom, according to the law of society, reparation is to be exacted. If a news paper misrepresents a man, he has his remedy in a contra diction, for which the press is always open ; if it vilifies or otherwise injures him, he has his remedy in the courts of law, with jaws ever gaping for us ; but nobody expects him, society does not expect him, to look for any other remedy ; it is a paper or an abstraction that he has to do with, and not a man that can insult.—Standard. The New Zealand papers to the 3d of December give a mournful detail of the butchery of a Mrs. Robertson, her child, and some attendants, at the Bay of Islands, the pre ceding week. A native, of the name of Makntu, was the perpetrator of the horrid deed, and after having despatched his victims—merely, it is supposed, for the sake of posses sing their clothes and some few moveables—fired their resi dence and left their bodies to burn. He escaped to his tribe, but was pursued, and after a long and perilous nego tiation was delivered over to the parties who had investigated the matter, and was at the date of these papers at Auckland, in the hands of justice. There is no local news worth ex tracting. The proposed commutation by the chancellor of the ex chequer of the railway passengers' tax, of one-eighth of a penny per head per mile, to a general payment of 5 per cent. on the gross receipts, is e x p ec t e d t o cause a l oss to some o f the great metropolitan lines, but to prove of the greatest be nefit to others, especially the Scotch, as the cheap carrying lines having to compete with steam-boats have frequently never realized any profit whatever. The alteration will, moreover, it is thought, prove a great boon to the labouring classes, as it will enabl e th e compan i es to i ncrease the ac commodation to the third-class passengers, and perhaps to add a fourth class. The subject has excited much interest among those concerned in railways, particularly the northern lines, which are expected to derive the principal advantage. AN HUSSAR KILLED IN DUBLIN.—On Monday morning a soldier of the 10th royal hussars was thrown from his horse while riding rapidly up Aungier-street ; falling backwards, his head came violently in contact with the pavement, and he was killed on the spot. The man was the hearer of some some despatches, and going rather hard for street riding, a dray appearing just before him as he passed Digges-street, he pulled up suddenly, and threw his horse on his haunches. The horse rose immediately but without his rider. The poor fellow's brains were literally dashed out, and he never spoke scarcely breathed —more. A verdict of accidental death was returned. The Wurtsburgh Gazette, of the 3rd, states that the King of Prussia intends going to St. Petersburg on the 26th June. His Majesty's absence from his dominions will be about a month, at the end of which timc he will return, and visit the provinces of the Rhine, to be present at the grand reviews of hi s army , which are to take place early in August. The Prussian court will then reside alternately at Cologne, Coblentz, Dusseldorf, Munster, and at the royal castle of Stobzenfels. The Kings of Bavaria, of Wirtemberg, of Hanover, of the Belgians, the Emperor of Russia, several Archdukes, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and some Ge rman and F renc h pr i nces , h ave , it i s s aid, received invi tations to join hisllgajesty of Prussia on this occasion. The resolution of the Prussian minister concerning the rela tive position of the-Bishop of Jerusalem' and the evangelical Prussian church, has not been favourable to that clergy, who has received orders to abstain from holding any discussions on the Anglican church. WILL OF THE LATE DUKE OF CLEVELAND, K.G.— The will of the late Harry, Duke of Cleveland, has been just proved in the Prerogative Court, by the executors, Henry, Lord B roug h am and Vaux, Mr. Thomas Metcalf, and Mr. G. B. Wharton. The personal property has been sworn under £1,000,000, upon which a stamp duty of 413,000 has been paid. The property has been bequeathed princi pally to his family, consisting of the present duke, L or d s William Poulett and Harry Vane, Ladies Laura Meyrick (who is abroad), Arabella Arden, and Augusta Milbanke, with the exception of some legacies and annuities to his ser vants. Lord Brougham and his executors are bequeathed £1,500 each. The late duke's perso na l es t ate i s the largest estate left by any peer of his elevated rank since the late Duke of Sutherland, whose personal e s t a t e was sworn as amounting to more than £1,000,000; all sums beyond which are not subject to probate duty. The dowager duchess is handsomely provided for under the late duke's will.— Standard. A FORTY FEET LEAP.—While a train on the Glasgow and Ayr Railway was coming towards the latt er p l ace one d ay last week, and when on the highest part of the embankment between Kilwinning and Irvine, a man, who was a passen ger in one of the third class carriages, asked a fellow-tra veller when it was likely the train would arrive at Kilwin ning. He was informed that he had just passed that place. " What ! past Kilwinning am I, gude faith, if that be the case I'm lang enough here. So saying, he fastened his skull-cap on his cranium—buttoned his coat—and, in spite of every remonstrance, leaped over the side of the carriage, at the steepest part of the embankment—nearly 40 feet— down which he rolled like a ball, casting a series of not the most graceful somersets, while the passengers in the train were in great terror lest he had killed himself by his rash ness. He, however, found his level, where he was accosted by a labourer in the adjoining field, wh o i nqu i re d if h e was hurt. " Hurt ! no an inch 9 atweel," and giving his jacket a shake or two to deprive it of the dust which it had collected during his descent, he stepped off across the field, exclaiming as he went—alluding to the train, now in the distance—" That wad be a go indeed !—You haurlin' me on to Irwin, and me dressed and a' for our Mall's weddin' at Kilwinnin' !"—Ayr Advertiser. DETENTION OF THE WEST INDIA NIAILS.--The primary cause of this detention seems to be the departure of the Tweed from Jamaica without a sufficiency of coals to bring her back. She was consequently, detained at Chagres and Porto Bello, and had been absent from Jamaica, by the last accounts, no less than six weeks. This deranged the order of the packets to windward, and the Actaeon, one of the wind ward packets, was compelled to go down to Jamaica with the windward mail, which deranged the service there. In the meanwhile the Tay was put in quarantine by the authorities at the Havana, which led to a misunderstanding between them and the English consul, relative to the delivery of the mails, and which proceeded to such lengths as to call for military interference. Nearly at the same time the mail on board the Actaeon, then at Turk's Island, was preveeted from being carried to Nassau. Now, had this been done, the mails would have been in England three weeks since by the Medina. Subsequently the Tay and the Forth, contrary to the instructions, it is said, of the company, and in direct opposition to the advice of the Post-office commissioner, Mr. Rains, were ordered to proceed direct to England, both leaving together and arriving together. The Dee, at Turk's, Island, in place of being allowed to pursue her proper course, was ordered by an agent away to Jamaica, and thence to the Havana. Thus three most important and connecting sta tions were altogether deprived of steamers to carry on the service, the consequences of which can scarcely be calcula ted, but it may be imagined, when it is stated that the com munication between the West India Islands, Northern Ame rica, and the Gulf of Mexico, will be, for a time, virtually suspended, and thrown into great confusion.—Morning He rald. THE BRAINTREE CHURCH-RATE CASE.—Dr. Lushing ton delivered judgment at great length in this case on Wed nesday last in the Consistory Court of London. The learned judge appeared to be fully alive to the very serious responsi bility under which any judicial decree must be pronounced involving the determination of questions so grave and exten sive as those which this must ultimately govern. The main question raised in the case was—whether the minority of the parishioners in vestry assembled, under a monition is sued by the Consistory Court, could bind the majority by declaring a rate for the necessary repairs of the church, after that proposition had been already negatived by the majority of the parishoners ? That majority contended that the parish was too poor to pay any such rate ; that it had been distinctly refused by them for some years past ;—that after the usual form of this court's granting a decree, a monition had issued to the churchwardens, who thereupon, notwithstanding this declaration of the majority of the parishioners, had proceeded to levy a rate. It seems that this rate having been proposed in vestry, by the churchwardens, had been met by an amend ment, expressly refusing it, which was instantly carried. The defendant was subsequently proceeded against for having re sisted payment when such rate was attempted to be levied ; and the principle upon which the rate was now to be affirmed or disallowed was admitted to be dependant on the admission or rejection of the libel before the court. Dr. Lushington dwelt at great length on the chief precedents, on the nature of ana logical cases, which were said to be relied on, and especially that of " Gaudan and Selby," in 1794. The learned judge then laid down in great detail and with much distinctness his own opinion as to what was really the nature of church -rates ; as to the obligation on churchwardens to levy them ; and as to the legitimate objects of their application. He also dis cussed the several preliminary objections that had been raised to the admissibility of the libel, such as that the rate was to have been appropriated in this instance to repairs of the chancel, which it could not legally be ; but not affirming any of the objections he rejected the libel, on the ground that the rate was not a valid one. The learned judge remarked that if the law was a defective one on this point, it was not for the judges to alter it, but for the legislature to provide a re medy for it. He could only follow the course adopted b y Lord Ellenborough, in allowing the appeal by wager of battle, so long as that barbarous privilege yet remained part and par cel of the law of England. It is evident that this decision against the po wer of a parochial minor it y i n vestry, with the churchwardens, to make a rate admitte d to b e necessary to maintain the fab r i c of the church, as i n th e B ra i ntree case, suggests matters for very grave apprehension, SECOND. EDITION. Standard-office, Eleven o'clock APPALLING MURDER AND ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE (From our Preston Correspondent.) It is this week our melancholy task to add to the gloomy catalogue of horrid and revolting crimes, which have of late so frequently and so acutely shocked the public mind in this country. The very recent enactment of the tragedy we are about to sketch, must be an apology to our readers for not entering into any very elaborate or circumstantial details. About one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, the inhabitants of Preston were alarmed by the report that a murder had taken place, at the house of Peter Whittle, living in Vicker street, near Trinity Church, in that town, a cotton spinner, in the employ of Mr. Thomas Clayton, of Pitt-street. An enquiry was immediately set on foot, when it appeared that the report had too much foundation in truth, and that the transaction to which it referred, was of the most painful and cold blooded character. It seems that Whittle had not been required to attend his customary employment this morning nd that he had spent some portion of the day at a public house, or beer-shop, where he had partaken of a few glasses of ale, but, as far as the general opinion goes, had not be come, to any observable degree, intoxicated. , Some time before the hour we have mentioned, probably about twelve o'clock at noon, he arrived at his house in Vicker-street, where his wife and children resided. The wife, Sarah Whittle, who was a winder, also in the employ of Mr. Clayton, returned from her work between twelve and one, and was, to all appearance, received kindly by her hus band, who spoke to her in his usual way, and inquired what time she should finish work for the day. About half an hot% after the poor woman had arrived, and after she and her hus band had partaken of dinner, a little girl who was in the house we believe the neice of Whittle, observed him take his victim round the neck, apparently in a playful and affectionate man ner. In a few moments, however, the girl perceived some thing like a struggle, and instantly after observed blood flow ing from Mrs. Whittle's breast. At this moment the unfor tunate creature ran to the door, and, as well as she could ar ticulate, called out " Murder !" A person, who was passing, immediately conducted her inside the house ; but in a few minutes, and before help could be procured, she ex pired. In the meantime, the girl's attention was directed to the murderer, whom she discovered in the act of cutting his own throat in the kitchen, where he was afterwards found in an apparently dying state. From inquiry subsequently made on the spot, and by the police, we have ascertained that the weapon which was the instrument of this shocking and two fold crime, was a razor, and that the woman's head was nearly severed from her body. The wretched perpetrator of the tragedy had inflicted two frightful gashes in his throat, but hopes are now entertained of his recovery. He is, of course, under due medical care, and under the surveillance of the police. From the wounds on the murdered woman's hands and person, it would appear that she had struggled se verely against the attack of her vnnatural assassin. What renders the event, if possible, more distressing, is, that the deceased was considerably advanced in pregnancy. The ru mour in the neighbourhood is, that jealousy has impelled the foul and fatal deed ; though the familiar acquaintances of the ill-fated couple state that they lived together on most affec tionate terms, and were both considered as of remarkably exemplary character. THE INQUEST, An inquest was held on the body yesterday afternoon, before Richard Palmer, Esq. and a respectable jury, when a verdict of " Wilful Murder," was returned against Peter Whittle. The wretched man is not expected to recover from the effect of his wound, but little doubt is entertained of his insanity. He lies at the house of recovery. ANOTHER CONSPIRACY TO MURDER LOUIS PHILLIPPE Another conspiracy to assassinate the King of the French has happily been detected, and several persons, chiefly ouvriErs, have been arrested, among whom is the notorious Considere, twice before implicated in similar plots, but acquitted. A quantity of petards, arms, and ammunition, found in their possession, has been seized. The foilowing letter contains the fullest particulars relative to this atrocious conspiracy :- 4 , P ARIS , May 7.—A rumour prevailed yesterday that a conspiracy to murder the King had been discovered, to which, however, little credence was attached, the more es pecially by the silence observed by the government journals last night, and the absence of all allusion whatever to it by any of the journals of this morning. I find, however, upon inquiry, that the fact is but too true, that a discovery has been made by the police, which leavcA no doubt of the ex istence of a plot not only to murder the King, but to in volve in the same fate as many members of the Royal Fa mily as should be with his Majesty at the chosen moment for putting the atrocious plan of the conspirators into execution. It appears that during the summer months the King is in the habit of driving out from Neuilly, in a large open caleche, accompanied by the Queen and other members of the Royal Family. Upon such occasions the carriage is un attended by a military escort, and the horses are d"iv'n at a merely ordinary pace. These circumstances see, have suggested the idea of an infernal machine, and one nas been invented of a simple character, being in form an ordinal y sized ball, calculated to burst upon falling, and to shatter everything near it with irresistible force. The principal ma terial is said to be a fulminating powder of a very powerful character. The instruments for working, the materials, and some , balls, w ere f oun d upon t h e premises adjacent to Con. sider s wineshop in Rue Montmartre. This Considere has been twice tried for complicity in plots to murder the King, and each time acquitted. He was one of those tried in connection with Quenisset. Considere has been ar rested, with seven oth ers . Thi s consp i racy w il l l ead, in all probability, to more stringent laws. The police authorities complain that they have no preventive power—they say that, no matter how strong the m o ra l cer t a i n t y may b e on their minds that marked and suspected persons are planning wicked ness, yet that they cannot i n terf er e; and then when the plot comes to light, people ask what were the police about? Of what use are they ? And what has been done with the secret service money voted for preventive objects ? Upon the other hand, the abuses to which so dangerous a privilege might give rise cannot be lost sight of. Up to Thursday night the police remained in ignorance of what was hatching. " On Sunday evening last the king sat at an open window looking upon the garden of the Tuileries during a whole hour, while a musical band was performing below in honaPer of his fete day. The garden was densely crowded, and it was observed that the greeting of the multitude was of an unusually cordial character. The public mind has latterly, thanks to a wise and moderate government, been so calmed and regulated, that a return to loyal feelings appears to have taken place, and the discovery just made will excite horror and disgust universally. "The chartist petition, which excited some curiosity, no longer attracts attention. The dangers just discovered at at home from regicide ruffians have destroyed all interest; if any existed, in the proceedings of the malignant and cow ardly demagogues of the other side of the water." ARRIVAL OF THE CLYDE STEAMER SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.—The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's steamer, the Clyde, arrived at Southampton at a late hour last night. She left Havannah 16th April, and brings all the mails. They were landed at Falmouth, and will not be received in town till to-morrow. We have received by this vessel a file of Ilavannah pa pers to the 16th ultimo, but they contain nothing of im portance. The Creole men were liberated by the Court at Nassau on the 16th of April. The Clyde has brought a quantity of money for the pay ment of the Mexican dividend. (From the Nassau Royal Gazette of April 16, THE CREOLE MUTINEERS. The 17 men who remain of the 19 originally confined in the gaol of this town, under circumstances with which the public are already familiar, were this morning discharged by proclamation of the Special Court, or general gaol delivery, which was convened for the occasion, and before which they were arraigned in order that they might undergo a trial for piracy, should any prosecutor appear. The United States consul requested further time that he might procure evidence to substantiate the charge ; the court, however, decided that it would be most unjust further to detain the men, as there was not even a possibility of procuring any evidence which could bring the crime home to them. They were accordingly discharged. (From the same of April 6.) The Teviott, Lieut. Crock, R.N., from Turks Island, with the March mail, is just anchored outside of Hog Island. (From the same of April 9.) The Teviott sailed on Thursday, about noon, for Havannah. In consequence of the great fall in the corn-markets, the bakers in Bath have lowered their bread id. per quartern. The bobbin -net trade, which was so extensive in Leicester shire in 1829, has now become nearly extinct. Cambric for handkerchiefs has begun to be manufactured in the north of Ireland to a considerable extent. The Bishop of Lichfield is rapidly sinking, and very faint hopes are held out of his recovery. Mr. Justice Cresswell was knighted by her Majesty at the levee on Wednesdsy. The Northern and Eastern Railway is to be opened throughout on Monday week. The public opening of the South-Eastern Railway to Tun bridge is fixed for the 26th instant. The directors go down. on the 19th. Stamford was agitated on Thursday by an awful occur rence, the death of Mr. T. Boyfield, under -steward to the Marquis of Exeter. He fell down dead in Burghley Park, without any known previous illness. The Government of Bavaria has just issued an order pro hibiting the homeopathic system of treatment in all hospitals, prisons, and other establishments, until further and satisfac tory information shall be procured as to its efficacy. ADVANTAGES OF WATER-TIGHT BULKHEADS.—Theseare shown by the following account of the Nemesis, iron war steamer:—" January 15. The Blenheim sails with Sir H. Pottinger to Macao, and the Admiral proceeds to Chusan in the Nemesis, which right arm of our force has a large hole in her bottom and requires to be hove down."—Bombau Times, March 23. THE M.P. FOR THE MONTROSE BURGHS.—HAPPY Lo- CATION.—A Welsh contemporary very aptly places the election of Joseph Hume among several notices of quack medicines. CHRIST CHURCH, CHELTENHAM.—The Rev. A. Boyd, M.A. has communicated to the trustees of Christ Church his intention of permanently accepting the Incumbency of that church. ALTERATION OF CIRCUITS.—In addition to the alteration in the Northern Circuit, the judges have determined to take Warwickshire from the Midland Circuit, and attach it to the Oxford Circuit ; and take Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Monmouthshire, from the Oxford Circuit, and attach them to one of the Welsh Circuits. THE TIMBER DUTIES.—It is understood to be the inten tion of government, in the new tariff regulations with respect to colonial timber, to allow all such timber as may arrive in this country before the 10th of October next, to have a privi lege equivalent to that of bonding, whether such timber may be deposited in bonding yards, or may be received in ports in which no such yards exist. CAUTION TO PUBLICANS.—It has just been decided at Bristol, by Sir Charles Wetherell, the recorder. that putbli cans suffering not only card playing, but bagatelle, and the like, although not for money or money's worth, are liable to the penalties imposed by theialehouse act of parliament. The duty nn indigo is to be reduced to 2s. per cwt. on fo reign, and Is. per cwt. on colonial. The present duty is 3d. per lb. • and the reduction to ls. per cwt., which is less th an one-eighth of a penny per lb., will be a considerable boon both to the manufacturing interest of England and the agri cultural interest of India, THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL THIS present TUESDAY, May 10th, 1842, will he per il- formed, for the first time here, Moncrieff's adaptation of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY ; OR, POOR SMIKE THE VICTIM OF THE 'YORKSHIRE SCHOOL. To conclude with the WOOD DEMON. First Price :—Lower Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. Gd. ; Gallery, Is. Second Price.—Lower Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. Gd. ; Gallery, Gd. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS riIHE Subscribers to this Establishment, and the Public, are respectfully informed the FIRST GR.AND 'OPENING FETE OF THE SEASON will take place ON MONDAY NEXT, MAY 16, with the Novel and Extraordinary Exhibitions, and PICTORIAL MODEL OF ROME, the once proud Mistress of the World ; comprising, amongst its most striking features, the Ancient Bridge and C as tl e o f St. Angelo, the Vatican, and Pontifical Palace, the Capital di St. Spirito, and the vast and marvellous edifice of St. Peter's. _ This magnificent representation has been constructed from the most accurate Designs, by the most celebrated Artists of the day. The delineations are so strictly accurate, and the proportions so stupendous, as to offer a perfect realization of those Wonders of Architecture which still render the Eternal City the most interesting spot in the world. At dusk, this novel exhibition will be seen under the aspect which the scene presents during the rejoicing in cele bration of 11 Giorno di San Pietro, when the whole vast Edifice of St. Peter's is Illuminated, and every detail of the glorious Architecture shines forth in lines of resplendent light. It is on those festive occasions also that the celebra ted Girandora, or great FIRE WORKS of ST. ANGELO, are displayed from the summit of the Castle, beyond all com parison the grandest display of Pyrotechnic Art ever invented, being a fac simile of this GORGEOUS FESTIVAL. With these will be given Cascades of Fire Fountains of Stars and tremendous Flights of Rockets, forming a scene of the most inconceivable magnificence ever attempted out of Italy. Pyrotechnic Artist, SIGNOR SEMONA N.B.—Every possible care has been taken in forming a first-rate MILITARY BAND, which, under the superin tendance of Mr. STUBBS, will perform during the Season. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. TO CORRESPONDENTS Several communications stand over for consideration Cbe kibtrpool &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 10,.18 4 2 On Friday evening, during the debate upon the in come tax, Sir Robert Peel declared his regret that " he could not; express any very sanguine expectations with respect to a revival of trade. He was bound to say that the arrival of spring had disappointed the antici pations he had formed ; for his impression had been that that season would have been accompanied by more cheering indications of prosperity than had yet ap peared." In this disappointment of the right honour able baronet, we must confess that, to a considerable extent, we participate. We certainly did think with him, and give expression to our opinion, at an early period of the year, that the cloud which had hung, for the past twelve months, over the commerce of the em pire, was about to disperse, and that the dawn of more prosperous times was at hand. The incubus of a bad government had been removed from off the energies of our industrial and mercantile interests. The para lyzing feu- of domestic and foreign entanglements had given wa y to a confidence in the' firmness, ability, and, above all, the honesty, of the new administration. In addition to this gratifying change of circumstances, create by the change of government, the period at which, under the ordinary course of things, a revival of prosperity was to be anticipated, had, it was gene rally thought, arrived; and we were fully justified in indulging in those hopes, the failure of which Sir Ro bert Peel here acknowledges and regrets. We never, however, anticipated, notwithstanding the admiusion of some degree of disappointment which we have already made, any sudden and large amount of revived prosperity, and we are therefore far from viewing with great despondency the existing state of things. More than once we have expressed our con viction till tt, in our manufacturing districts especially, the same degree of activity, the same amount of profit, and the s•.a.me rate of remuneration for labour which has exist 3d up to the period of this last check, would probably :never recur. We have got rid, perhaps for ever, of Ivhat we have been accustomed to term " MA- N UFACT URING PROSPERITY"-Of the addition of mill to mill— loom to loom—warehouse to warehouse ! The leviathan efforts of mushroom capitalists to encompass earth and sea, and to drag their riches in heaps within their clot ch, will npt again be made. The protegees of joint stock banks will not be permitted to run the same racer for the same ruinous .stakes which,thev have adventur 5(.1 upon in time past—in that day of bubbles, whose ex plosion has left them to sprawl helpless to the obscurity from which they were originally inflated. The restoration of the fictitious and inordinate pros perity (!) which has enabled a race of kite-flying schemers to strew every foreign market with stocks of unsaleablie goods, the property of unfortunate British creditors, we have never expected or indeed desired ; and althc rugh the symptoms of a return to solid and permanumt prosperity, which we anticipated, we cannot as yet with certainty discern, yet we see too many ex traneous circumstances, which have contributed to ob struct such a result, to permit us to underrate the power of British commerce to right itself, and ultimately to reassume its wonted healthy condition. Amongst other retarding circumstances, we see our Indian empire in a state of financial prostration—the result of the depletion produced by the policy of the Indian government of Lord Auckland. Our com merce with China is interrupted by a state of actual hostilities between Great Britain and that country. The condition of the United States of America is such as to forbid, for a time at least, any extensive and safe commerce with that country. In every market of the world the trade with Great Britain is only recovering from the consequences of inordinate stimulation ; and these are circumstances over which no government at home—no revival of confidence at home or abroad — no improvement in the social condition, even, of the country—can Q:ercise any material influence. In ad dition to these, however, the prolongation of uncer tainty with respi ct to the passing of the financial mea sures of Government cannot but have operated to retard the reviw .1 of commercial activity. We know that it has so rei.arded it—that it has, in fact, in many instances, arrested those trading operations which, under a state .of certainty as to duties, &c., would, under the worst condition of the internal administra tion of the country, have been made ; and however much, therefort!, we may have anticipated improvement in commercial affairs, and however much we may be grieved to see that no such improvement has taken place, we feel, certainly, when we weigh all the con current obstacles which have intervened to prevent so desirable a consummation, no great degree of surprise, and certainly no extraordinary depression of spirits, that the result which we contemplated is, as yet, un realized. The commerce of Great Britain must, we are firml assured, progress gradually —nay, even slowly—to a state of prosperity. Health it is already attaining— the frail health of the patient from whose frame the ravaging fever has just been driven ; but that rude and vigorous health, which it is most desirable to witness, and which is alone likely to be permanent, it may and will require another, and above all, a favourable revo lution of the seasons to produce. The bounty of Pro vidence bestowed in a prosperous harvest will do for Great Britain in a few months what no merely legisla tive measures could accomplish in as many years. In the course of a comment upon the opinion ex pressed by the Town-clerk, at the recent adjourned meeting of the Council, that the Watch Committee is, unlike other committees, independent of the control of the body by which it is appointed, our contemporary of the Journal urges that, if such opinion is correct, the reporters of the press ought to be admitted to its me etings, as they are already to those of the Dock Committee. We shall not take upon ourselves to con tzr overt the question of right in this case. Probably -our contemporary would have the better of us if we did. But we really must question a little the prudence of such a regulation. By the present arrangement of things it does appear to us that the principal bu s i ness of the C ounc il i s t o talk to the public, through the fa cilities afforded to them by the presence of reporters, and not to work. The business of committees, on the other hand, is to work, and not to talk ; and we greatly fear that the only effect of the admission of the mem bers of the press to the Watch or any other commit tee, would be to inflict upon the pvblic, weekly or daily, the tiresome or factious twaddle of this or that radical solon, which, with whatever stoicism we endure it once a month, would infallibly mesmerise us, or throw us into convulsions, if oftener repeated. But although on this ground, even, we are warranted in refusing the eo,operation.which is requested from us by the Journal, for the purpose of urging forward this absurd demand, we have another very sufficient excuse for the disinclination which we feel to load our pages weekly with the squabbles of committees, in addition to the sayings and doings at the ordinary monthly field-day. It may be pleasant enough to the Journal to collate for the amusement of gossiping people the bons morceaux from such reports ; but, unfortunately, the labour and expense is thrown upon our shoulders of reporting them in full ; and we have, we can assure him, in supporting our newly acquired title of " the mirror of Town Council proceedings," (for which we must express our thanks to Mr. Geo. Hall Lawrence,) quite as much of this description of work as we re quire, without becoming, as well, the mirror of the proceedings of the Watch or any other committee. We have been flattering ourselves for the past few weeks that, as a political body, the Anti-corn-law League was, if not defunct, at all events in such a des perate condition that its resuscitation was hopeless. Since the introduction of the measures of Sir Robot Peel, the utmost feat which it has been able to perform in Manchester, the scene of its past glories, has been the plunder of a few bakers' shops and a riotous as semblage of its Irish bludgeonmen around the doors of the parish office; and this, notwithstanding the stock talent of the body, has been increased for a time by the'importation, from our own town, of that su blime of Maww • orms, Mr. Lawrence Heyworth. By an intimation, however, conveyed to us by a contempo rary, the Manchester Chronicle, we are glad to find that there is still life in the paltry thing—that in these dull times the battered merry-andrew is still able to writhe, and howl, and play fantastic tricks for the amusement alike of the Manchester cottonocracy and of ourselves. The following is the announcement in question : " Tim LEAGUE AGAIN.—The New Corn Law having come into operation, the League have summoned a general meeting of their body for Wednesday next, when a totally new scheme of agitation is to be announced. We presume it will be founded on the project we formerly alluded to—of im porting and liberating foreign corn, so as artificially to depress the market and punish the home grower. The funds are said to be provided." " importing and liberating foreign corn" pressing the market and punishing the home grower". (by giving bread for nothing, we presume, to the starving weaver.) No, no ! Our friend of the Chro nicle must not attempt to tickle us with such a palpable hoax as this. When the league gives anything away, except its own mendacious tracts or the halfpenny ora tions of Mr. Richard Cobden, we will submit to wear sackcloth for a month. If there is anything in this importing scheme, depend upon it we are far more likely to witness an importation of cheap labour or a de-portation of some hundred of the ruffians in the pay of the league, with Messrs. R. R. Moore, as their Jack Cade, and Lawrence Heyworth, as his chaplain, to kick up a row in some peaceable locality which has the misfortune to be peopled with a race imperturbable enough to resist the journalism and the spoutings of this enlightened body. STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c Our cotton-market during the week has been marked by a moderate demand, which is freely met, with little change of price, in the face of heavy arrivals—nearly 150,000 bales having come into our port within the past fortnight. The sales up to Friday amounted to 18,530 bales, including 1200 American on speculation, and 800 American and 200 Madras for export. On Saturday the extent of the arrivals having been ascer tained, which give a clue to the probable crop to be expected, the tone of the market was decidedly improved; and yester day purchases were freely entered into to the extent of 6000 bales, The trade of the manufacturing districts remains in the state of suspension, which we have previously noticed. LOCAL NEWS The KeFtral, which sailed from Lirna on the 15th January, and arrived at this port on Friday, brought 300,000 dollars on freight. EXTINCTION OF TIIE SOCIALISTS IN LIVERPOOL.—The Socialists are ,;; completely extinguished in Liverpool that they have been obliged to change the name of their building from " The Hall of Science " to the " Nelson Assembly rooms." ROBBERY BY A SIIOP-BOY.—Henry Simpson, aged about 1-1, was committed for trial on Saturday, by Mr. Rushton, for stealing a number of watches, the property of his master, Mr. Henry Foster_ wateh-rnal:or STEALING BlBLES.—Bridget Franklin was brought before Mr. Rushton, on Saturday, charged with stealing two Bibles from Mr. Pritchard, keeper of a cook-shop in Currie-street, and was committed for trial. The import of cotton, during the past week was extremely large. Up to Thursday night 85,000 b ags h a d b een rece i ve d , and probably 30,000 bales arrived afterwards. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—On Friday morning last a labouring man, named Thomas Bond, previously enjoying good health, was suddenly taken ill while walking along Sum merseat. He was immediately conveyed to the North Dis pensary, and thence to the Northern Hospital, Leeds-street, where he died in a few minutes after his arrival. We under stand the cause of his death to have been apoplexy. . . At a late tea-party, given by the Anti-Monopoly Old Wo men, a ruddy-faced biped, in short trousers, white stockings, and hobnailed shoes, entered stealthily, and was no sooner perceived than a faint noise and visible commotion was cre ated at the lower end of the room, when Mr. Popjoy, who shoves himself into all sorts of queer holes, was asked by a lady, " What 's up now ? " " They are only making the door safe." " How ? " with opened eyes inquired the fair. " They are clapping a 801 l on," replied the facetious old one. FIRE IN L AUNCELOT ' S-HEY.—On Friday afternoon, about three o'clock, a fire.was discovered in the cellar of a ware house in Launcelot's-hey. A quantity of scrapings from turpentine barrels had been collected, and these igniting, burst into a flame, which threatened destruction to the whole building. The warehouse i►s which it occurred is on the site of the great fire that took place there, it will be remembered, a few years back. The alarm, however, was instantly given, and the engines being immediately on the spot, the flames were extinguished before much injury had been done. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE OF A CHILD.—On Monday morning week, a son of police-officer Moran (who attends daily on the magistrates at the police-court), of little more than three years old, was left by himself for a short time in a room on the second floor of his father's house, in Richard son's-buildings, Park-lane; and seeing some children playing in the street, he by some means got up to the window, probably on a table, and overbalancing himself, fell down upon the flags in the street below. A crowd immediately gathered, thinking he could not long survive the shock, the height being fourteen or fifteen feet. Strange to say, how ever, not' even a scratch or a bruise was to be found upon him, and he has since been in his usual health, and has at tended school as usual! CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY.—The traffic on this line, during last week, in consequence of Chester races, has been immense, and far exceeding that of last year. The following is a summary of the passengers during the race days : Tuesday, 3rd of May Wednesday, 4th Thursday, sth 6827 3247 2625 12,700 The following are the receipts of the three days : Tuesday .. .C 712 Wednesday Thursday 278 NEW PATENTS.—Fro m th e li st o f new patents £l3l2 granted last month, we take the following. To John Read, of Re gent's-circus, London, and othets, for improvements in the construction and make of driving reins, harness, bridles, &c.—To Thomas Richards, of Liverpool, bookbinder, for certain improvements in the art of bookbinding, and also in machinery or apparatus to be employed therein.—To J. G. S. Clarke, of Euston Grove, engineer, for improvements in sup plying and regulating air to the furnaces of locomotive en gines. —To A. Jeffrey, of Lloyd's-street, Pentonville, gen tleman, for a new method of preparing masts, spars, and other wood, for shipbuilding and other purposes.—To C. Farina, of London, chemist, for a new method of manufac turing soap, candles, and settling wax, and to Win. Falconer, of Clapham Common, gentleman, for improvements in ap paratus for attaching buttons and fasteners to gloves and parts of garments. Tim WILL-FORGERS.—The prisoner Thomas Burns charged, with Margaret Me graw and others, with havi ng ' forged two wills, was plac e d b e f ore Mr. Ru 4 shton, on Satur day last, when a third case was brought against him. Th e probate of a will, dated I s t August, 1840, was produced, which will purported to be that of George. Dunn, mariner, then going on board the Emma, bound for Africa. Th e a ffid av it set forth, that D unn had died in January, 1841. The clerk to the owners produced the log t the to E tTe mil o , wh i i 3 c u h nn sa t i l l ie ec d l on the Ist Au gust, 1810. Accon at midnight on t h e 27th April, 1841. g The Rev. g lYlr, Stafford proved, that the prisoner was the person who took him the will alleged to be forged. He also making the affidavit calling himself Thomas Jones. This was all the evidence forthcoming at th a t moment. The prisoner was remanded. The witnesses were bound over to prosecute at the next assi zes in re cogn i zances of £lOO each. Margaret Megraw and the others connected in her case were called forward and formally committed for trial. THE LIVERPOOL ALDERMAN CASE.—COURT QUEEN'S OF BENC H . THURSDAY.—THE QUEEN U. HARVEY. —Quo WARRANTO.—In this case a rule nisi had been ob tained calling upon the defendant to shew cause why a writ of quo warranto should not issue calling upon him to shew by what right he executed the office of alderman of the bo rough of Liverpool. It appeared that on the 29th October, 1841, Mr. Harvey had been elected an alderman of Liverpool. Among the qualifications to hold this office, it was enacted that the person holding such office must be entitled to be upon the burgess-list of the borough. It was admitted that Mr. Harvey was not upon the burgess-roll which came into ope ration on the Ist Nov., 1840, that he was entitled to be in the list made out by the overseers on the 15th Sept., 1841. and which would become the burgess roll on the Ist Nov., 1841. Mr. Kelly showed cause against the rule, and contended that the fact of his being on the new list was his qualification, and p l itsotnofb followedu burgesses se s i that the legislature intend ed the on that on the same side.—The r o e r t s b o i n s r s o h l o l u. —Mr. be r . o c n r t o h ni e Solicitor-General contended that the qualification was, that a person must be on the burgess-roll ; that the distinction at tempted to be drawn between the list and the roll was falla cious ; and that the legislature intended that the roll, and the roll only, should be the document to which reference was to be had to prove a qualification. Mr. Wortley followed on the same side.—The Court took time to consider its judg ment.