The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-04 00:00:00

day in A A NtU are n CH i RINCE 0 PRINGLE'S FO BOLD-STREET itEsEitv z • SELLING OFF. PARADISE-STREE RM. BECKWITH'S extensive STICK of SILKS. • LINEN DRAPERY, RIBBON , PRINTS, HO SIERY, upon the NO REDITC N AND EMP( N OM effect an is a FE) DAYS to Pissorfraent of BONNETS of (which aniimmense ate Sal TION bas been SHOP must be CLOSED ake im- :ed YOUNG LADIES to 20 days, without 1 at New Y stopping one instant with a con- as of coal ; a feat, probably, unprecedeni am navig The papers mention that the comet whose sudden appari tion has caused so much interest among the astronomers of Europe has caused equal interest among those or America. At first, there, as here, many persons took its brilliant tail nr the zodiacal ligh seen in the day time, with the naked eye, in several places distant from each other, no doubt existed in the minds of competent judges that it was truly a comet. Its brilliant tail was noticed, for e first time, about the first of March. On the tenth the dens, or head, itself was observed, among other places, College. Its appearance is thus described : ominatc VANTED, a JOHNSON BROTHELLS,_ LONDON DYEING ESTABLISHMENTS; 9, RANELAGH-STREET, ET, LIVERPOOL we Line of Buis - LIVERY Art__ - 124 or Dyed and Finis_ KID GLOVES CLEANED. LLAMA and MOUSSELINE DE LAINS DRESSES CLEANED and FINISHED N TO P7.,C m R. COCKLE'S iT ac Duke of Grafton Duke of Manchester Duke of Bedford ANTIBILIkUS PILLS, Duke of Argyll Duke of Beaufort Duke of Rutland Duke of Marlborough Duke of Buc Duke of Devonshire Doke of Sutherland Marquis of Lansdowne Marquis of Normanby Marquis of Ailesbury Marquis of Winchester Marquis of Abercorn Earl of Eldon Earl of M Earl of Ca Earl of Ki Earl of Dar; Earl of Gui] Earl of S Earl of 0 Earl Arni Earl of L Earl of G Visconnt Vis Via Lord At Lord H Lord P 1 Lord Murray Lord f Lord Mid Lord W Lord H Lord Sem Lord Hartl Lord West Lord A-r 4 P of Salisbt knd nuiner COCKLI ESTIMATIOI Letter which th e 1824 : ,cal and and in without occ 126, BOLD-STR c-t?GlOucester Bishop Of Chic Bishop of Worcester Bishop of Hereford ksaph 3ishop of St Bishop of Bangor Bishop of Llandaff Bishop of Calcutta Rt. Hon. J. A. Murray, Lord Advocate of Scotland Rt. Hon. R. C. Fergnsson, M.P. Judge Advocate Ge neral Hon. Sir Edward Cust,K.C.H Hon. Colonel Anson, G.C.B G.C.H J. kacdonald, K.C.B Bart., M.P sari. , K.C.B cart, M.P. t.M.P ?.Sol.Gen :k, M.P. Esq., Chilham Colonel Tynte, M.P. Colonel Stbthorp, M.P. Col.Delap S,toke Park, Surrey . Col. Bence, Thorington Hall IColonel Cowell • Pechell, M.P. Attwood, -an Thompson, M.P. des Walker, Esq., M.P. . r . Serjeant Talfourd, M.P vir. Sergeant Ludlow Matthias Al Cl 111 „ Aachdeacon of Colchester Archdeacon of St.Alban': Dr. French, Cambridge Dr. Be Dr. Bi D nT - wick, E M.D Waddy, Es Dublin much pleasure in laying Mr. ABERNETHY'S r Pills. extracted from a fto him in the year Palmerst t Howick the t ng pain s _ w w are prepa,red_bY2l4lrizJi OrUlLialy i.O a•... - ii 14ESSE Homsono, and may DC one Venders, in boxes, at Is. 10 NOTICE Let it he especial iuserved, that those Pills only ,are nam e " JAMES COCKLE, APOTHE. , engraved on the Government Stamp. ity will protect the Public acoino - .ny genuine which ha CARY," in white I Thig mark of autnc, dangerous and 4vlctarious imitation. mond -iltr se t , Bedford -row, London summormiimmeN"mm" . " ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE A CLERGYMAN IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. wmance of the afternoon service in St. London, on Saturday, an attempt was the life of the Rev. Mr. Haydon, one of the mi officiating for the Dean (the that the Rev. Mr. Warden, the offender (who was i n o yards from the Rev. first mistook During t . Paul's Cathedr , nor canons, who - was at tne time Bishop of Llandaff). It appears one of the congregation, observes the area of the Mr. Haydon,) for a book, bu ceived that it was twice or thric from his alarm the c?hg, an raised t soon as the rev. as ,-- . H. Plymsell was direc ted tower,. ...- - and he su c ceeded, with a perso n named Houghton, in getting thep-; stul, after some r esistance, from his hand. Plysell and a Mr. Bowler both positively state that the deadly weapon was aim e d at the Rev. Mr. Haydon, as they were behind the prisoner, and could judge of the fact. The m omen t which the accused chose for executing his murderous purpose was immediately upon the conclusion of the prayer for the Queen; but, happily, although he snapped the trigger, the weapon missed fire. He was immediately seized, and, upon examining the pistol, it was found to con tain powder, and five shots, which were preserved by the verger of the cathedral. The prisoner was then conducted from the cathedral in custody, When he was first seized he trembled very much, and remarked, " You need not hold me so tight, for I have nothing more about me ; I am not going to run away." Nothing but an old pocket hsndker chief and a small tin tobacco-box were found upon the pri soner. When questioned as to his name and address, he ' rel.- " I shall make no s further tam teents in this -1- -.-pQqed to disclose his risoner was freq made to ,IP 7 . I communic Du I s indicative i The reser soner on 11,1 S and during mmination ouse, was mann it, and nothing throus—__ .ed to lead to th heo iden- - ur I of Satur tits unti 1 ten o d a de D give t Or. He t ad, Bays was Aug zenick cted in the nE - - It appears that t and that he is the third son of the His father states that he ha , chool onl ne with his pirents, who ha obtain a suitable situation for been successful, and the prisor -a len 110111 G vas call on a gentleman who is a friend of his father's in His absence from home in the evening caused sm --- mess to Loud° y, bit, as t have one The mot family, a , a bed, and nothing fur the rash attempt is a ne: dear tt latter a thing to do ,e same fate which befel the Driving in a low carriage sion dra.. , one of the leaders fell, which caused jade the carriage to be overturned, but the duke previously jumped hole out, and fortunately escaped unhurt. of Orleans in July last bp four hor the cot bad, at the mor Mesmerism to a i the jok MARRIAG] smithy in the plied— The Lord I and his LICENCES may be acted upon CASIIII4 tiU MPH AWLS SHAWLITISII t Buit rbes, Bar Agnew, 1 Philip B.V._pro .Tnhn '1 Sir Thos. W , st respecta!,ilit I act with )n the alimentary o at i on . I consider them a licine, and may be taken at I vs Coo(' LANDGRAVINE of ad of all respectable Ivledi .. 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6(1. of A and I ha d ,stol, an and the inform s of met coed to Surgeon Extra- - theY had not Saturday to Catholic re of i comes In Si will he lsidered an atten- MVU piu He too !)r a line United t, with tt [COI I During, ; , steeple ded celebrnteatorse I at WOO, whicl cone I t obewritten to n the barrel, he per- m ediate would- assassin, :creamed out he was some Aat him. As a, the attention of I The death of the Duke of Manchester elevates the Earl o •" 3 the House of Peers. lute prohibition of foreign reprints of -rue into force ou the Ist of April. Edwarc.l at M the sum of £l' me ast- I in the 88 14s was wet, it was con- weav he had to call might el I reatens to eject Mr. Corbally,. a Roman representation of Aleatb, unless Le be- mesent montl s of the first qualit) 3. 2d. the 100 cubic it discounts for prat at Swint] on Friday last, the n dead: Ile was lawyers' charges to the Blackwall Railway Company, rid three quarters, amounts only to ugh of Stockport there is nne spinning and ch produces GO years I great' clod; Ulu the co amount of roduced en loafer was picked up pocket rat to the Penitentiary On Thursday last at as committed the nat st two county, felo- prison- d on b( 3 copyright books O'Conni a to send or de er such licence `ORAIGN tis %LAN ENCE. York a !C1 very 11th F, from Ya] " We had a - fair opportunity, on Saturday evening, the 11th, of observing the neuclus or head of the comet, it being at seven o'clock considerably elevated above the horizon, and close to the well known star Balm of the Whale (55 At this time, its right ascension was 1 hour 43 minutes, and its declination 11 1-1 degrees, nearly, setting about t wen ty minutes before eight o'clock. The train occupied, in fact, more than two hours in setting • but, being immersed in the vapour near the horizon, its feeble light was extin guished rapidly, and long before it had actually set. The neuclus was, doubtless, far less brilliant than it would have been had its latitude been greater, and the moon absent ; but, even under these disadvantages, it presented the appear ance of a bright central spot, enveloped in a misty haze, elongated in the direction of the train, the whole somewhat resembling a :lamp seen through a shade of ground glass. The train was better seen than heretofore, being more ele vated above the horizon, and extending further eastward. Its visible length was about forty degrees; northern margin about two degrees south of Gamma Eridani ; eastern visible limit near Sceptre; shape resembling a very large feather, with the convex side upwards. The House of Representatives having, on the 22d of Fe bruary, adopted a resolution offered by Mr. Ingersoll, which called on the President to communicate the correspondence which had passed between the United States Government and that of Great Britain on conflicting interpretations of the treaty concluded at Washington, as it concerns an alleged right to visit American vessels, on the 27th the President sent a message to the house on the subject of the resolution, accompanied by a report made to him by the Secretary of State and other documents. Mr. Tyler, in his message, ad mits and regrets that there exists a misunderstanding be tween the two Governments in relation to the eighth article treaty resi the Earl of Abe ting the right of visitation, as set up by een; and suggests the doubt, as arising eciarattons of England, whether the difference is :one of definition than of principle. Mr. Web letter, accompanying the message, reports the sub ince of a statement made to him, as Secretary of State, by Mr. Fox, our Minister, and which was the purport of a de spatch from the Earl of Aberdeen relative to the passage in the President's message, on the opening of Congress, ou the subject of the right of search. The Senate had rejected two nominations of the President Mr. Wise was three times nominated by the Pre Minister of France, and as often rejected by the Sen vote was two to one, 12 to 21.. M and thrice rejected acant post of Secretary to the It, They had, however, confirmed the urination of Mr. Everett, the Arnerican'Aliniz,ter at Lon ion, as " Minister to China. M r . S pencer, of the War De- partment, was nominated to the Treasury, and the nomina tion was confirmed by the bare majority of one. His cessor, as Secretary of War, was Judge Porter. Mr_ - it was understood, on the pcint of re net. Mr. Cushing, it was said, would retary of State. A rumour prevailed, , nld be appointed Minister to London, !bster was, 1:1 the Cab ited him Mr. We. ce of Mr. Everett, w 4 h . o_is going to China The session of Congress closed on the 3d ult., leaving un touched the tariftand the various exchequer plans. An act bad been passed reducing the value of British gold about , which would somewhat curtail the profits of of 1 per cent Ae Importers of specie ; and another establishing the rate at which certain foreign moneys of account shall be current at `rtm-houses, viz., the thaler of Prussia at 68 12 cents, of Portugal at 1 dollar 12 cents, the rix dollar of 1. - 1:e cents, the thaler of Bremen, if 72 grotes, -at 71 cents, the milree of Madeira at 100 cents, of the Azores ts, the marcbanco of Hamburgh at 35 cents, the iouoie of B.umia at - 75 eents, the rupee of British India at 44,1 cents. The act to carry into effect the stipulations of the treaty of Washington had met with little or no oppo sition and bad passed. The President had signed the bill repealing the bankrupt at 83 cents I for the occupation of the Oregon territory, which II be remembered, passed the Senate, had been left House of Representative described as stagnant int, there being little employment fo - r it in Al from 105 to 106 per cent. iding the constant arrival of coin by every packet - ^fe did not evince any sign of advancing. n the advance. The 6 per cent. stock ad gene up to 106 L at which price 'rs far. purchases. Treasury notes, were at a premium of 1 to 11 — "re at 1033 and range were European ord aring 6 per cent. in at. New York St ver interest off, city were at 107 e of Maryland, one the sal insolvent states, had passed a law, autlioriz-ing 1 certain of the State's interest _ eeds to go in liquida- Should the operation succeed, a of the whole debt. a come down to the and railways, the nr f the Stet !bunts from ( lath ult 1 continued to suffer severely from his not become worse. His recovery was tful. There had been se r i o u s r ioti ng . a the Lachine Canal ; they had, ho ppressed The Mexicans were still engaged in the siege of Campeachy. The Campeachanos had, it was stated, attacked them on the heights, defeating them with great loss. Among the killed on the side of the Mexicans, General Andrada and a son of Santa Anna are named. The possession of the heights, from which the Mexicans were driven, is said to be of great im portance to the besieged. A spirited action had been fought between the Mexican Iron ctearner Guc.daioupc and the it„ampeacny gun-boats, which resulted in the former being beaten off. Campeachy had been placed under martial law, in order to render the defence more effective and vigorous. Accounts from Aux Cayes, Hayti, to the end of February, state that the south part of the island was in a state of open insurrection. The insurgents had taken possession of several places, established a provisional government at Jeremie, and imprisoned a number of respectable Haytien merchants. Their object is declared to be- the establishment of a consti tution modelled after that of the United States. AMERICAN COTTON TRADE.—The late accounts from abroad have greatly checked all disposition to operate in the the continued large receipts of cotton at the eem to warrant the highest figure yet quoted for the The following are the stock, receipts, and exports this ear as compared with last : FROM SEPTEMBER 1 TO MARCH 10 1842. 1813. 1,088,391 418,428 193,627 51,99? 1,637,825 758,531 201,983 Receipts Inc. 542,434 346,113 8,356 Stock, 75,945 23,953 388, 504,400 The receipts, th us far, nea sBl rly equal the whole crop lls 0f ,869 the previous year, and the state of the money affairs at the South compels it to come promptly forward. At the leading ports of the South, prices have declined. At Mobile, for the week ending March 5, the sales were 13,500 bales, at a fall of lc a ic, and prices were 11c a lac below the highest points of the season. At New Orleans, the sales of the same week were 34,300 bales, at a fall of to a 4c, under the advices re ceived per Acadia to Feb. 5. New Orleans - _ a 4 a 44 Export to G. B „ France, Other Ports Mobile, Inferior, Ordinary, Middling Middling fair, Fair, New York a a 41a&4 siasl 61a7 naB —a 5 54- a 5i 6 a 64- 7.-1- a -7_ 41a5 51- 5i —a— Good fair, Good and fine, _ ~ —New York Paper, March 16 81 - a 91 if a a ench journals state, that on Monday the Duke de ,c 1 better e inhabitants of Boulogne affic with Great Britain me would not of Lille and Belgium ) REGICIDE —On Wednesday, a young man id, was takin to the station Fi ten in g to 1. He ha ke the life of th Id nor a heard to say el he would rains or chop off his head with a hatchett. as remanded, and the Secretary of State was ligiti4ctinentarli LORDS 11013 SE .ca tor certain returns respecting the .pirit distillation in Ireland, with the view of alteration of the act passed last session, by Lord WicKtow m law to regulat :ome tax, an additional duty was ird upon spirits of Irish manufacture. He gave ministers lit for this substitution, but their measure had, in its ration, proved most unfortunate. It was fraught with in ice, it had failed as a source of revenue, and it had produced ce and immorality to a most alarming extent. The amount of duty had been increased, upon the plea of assimilating it with that paid by the English and Scotch distillers ; but as the drawback duty which by the bill was taken from the Irish spirit was continued to that produced in Scotland, the latter possessed an advantage which has enabled it to supplant its rival in every foreign market. It has been calculated that the increased duty would produce £250,000, the experience of the year had given only £40,000, of which no less than £25,000 had been paid during the first quarter, while the low duty only was exacted. This, however, was not the worst of the evil. A low duty was the only effective check upon illicit distillation, and since the late addition the number of offend ers against the revenue laws had been in several counties more than doubled, while the utmost exertions of a vigilant magistracy and police, backed by all the assistance in regular troops which England could afford, would be insufficient to suppress the practice, so long as the high duty afforded a bounty to the illicit distiller. The Duke of WELLINGTON regretted that Lord Wicklow should have brought the subject in its present shape before the house, instead of communicating privately with the go vernment his reason for supposing that the measure had operated injuriously. He believed that the extreme cheap ness of oats and fuel had contributed much to the increase of illicit distillation ; but still the number of offenders, although greater than that of the previous year, was considerably less than it had been four or five years since, under the lower duty. The more temperate habits of the Irish population also had greatly lessened the consumption of ardent spirits, and in that manner occasioned a falling off in the amount of revenue collected. Lord MONTEAGLE denied that the question as to draw backs had been settled last session to the satisfaction of the distillers ; and proceeded to show that an increase of duty upon Irish spirits had been uniformly followed by a falling off of revenue and general demoralization. He would prefer a tax upon property to a duty which augmented crime. Lord FITZGERALD said, if he believed that to the increased duty was to be attributed all the evils which had been enu merated, the increase of illicit distillation, the increase of crime, and the demoralization of society, he should not for one moment contend for the retention of that increased duty. He did not think, however, that it had led to any material increase of illicit distillation, nor was there a particle of evi dence to show that it had produced the other mischievous effects which had been charged to its account. The govern ment was not prepared to abandon the experiment. which was still in the course of trial ; but he' had no objection to the papers moved for, in no hostile spirit, by the noble earl. The Earl of WICKLOW replied, after which the papers were ordered, and their lordships having disposed of some routine business, adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. Mr. HUME moved that a new writ should be issued for Nottingham in the room of Mr. Walter, who had been un seated by a committee on the ground of bribery by his agents. Sir R. INGLIS seconded th e motion. The Earl of LINCOLN disclaimed any intention of oppo sing the issue of the writ, although as the seat had been de `ared vacant on the ground of bribery, he felt it right that .it should not issue until the evidence received by the brim was placed the wr )efore the house, more particularly as is ha'l himself seen most demoralizing s cenes a t f ormer elect .. noble lord added that the last election was an improvement upon former ones, - and he had since heard cir cum,tances which e xcu l pa t e d Mr. Walter from improper practices which had taken place, and for which he had lost • Mr. T. DniZrepanE said that the Duke of Newcastle, in a recent correspoodnce, had attributed the suspension of the writ for Nottingham to the democratic section of the house, whereas the issue of the writ was opposed by the noble duke's nearest relative fiche Earl of Lincoln) and by the go- Mr. B. COCHRANE expressed a wish that it were in his power to move that Mr. Walter should be allowed to become a candidate at the ensuing election. Mr. HOGG, as chairman of the election committee which had unseated Mr. Walter, said that the evidence disclosed not merely a few Isolated cases of bribery, but went to esta blish the fact that there was an organised system in the town of Nottingham. Mr. Walter had unfortunately mixed him self up with those whose practices had led to the loss of his seat. Lord J. RUSSELL contended that the house had done right to suspend its judgment, although he was not going to op pose the issue of the writ. If committees of that house did their duty, they would give a severe check to bribery. Mr. BERNAL said that Mr. Hogg, holding the opinions he. had expressed, should have caused a special report to be madeN, the house. It was a disputed point whether a per son in 'Mr. Walter's position could become a candidate again, and the house should set the question at rest by a de claratory act - .7 , - Sir G. GREY . .'referred to the case of Newcastle-under- Lyme, in which inwas decided that a member unseated for bribery, either by himself or his agents, could not again be come a candidate. Sir R. PEEL said that after consideration lie was prepared to vote for the issue of the writ, and he bad since heard nothing to alter that determination. According to the statute of George the Second, the member unseated on the ground of bribery, whether by himself or his agents, could not again become a candidate ; and he thought visiting upon the mem ber the penalty of the misdeeds of the constituency might have a salutary effect in checking bribery, After-some further discussion, the new writ was issued. Tr_ V, Mr. FERRAND then moved for leave to bring in a bill to compel the allotment of waste land in England. The hon. member contended that the people in the manufacturing dis tricts were in a state of absolute starvation, and the evil was rapidly extending itself to the agricultural districts, and yet in this state of things nearly half the session had been already suffered tq elapse without the introduction of one practical measure for the relief or benefit of the industrious classes. A remedy might in his opinion be found in the allotment system, in support of which he argued at considerable length, asserting that no time was to be lost, for the country was on the brink of a volcano which might explode before the con clusion of those Easter festivities, to enjoy which they were soon about to separate. The hon. member detailed his scheme, which was that out of every 100 acres of waste land belonging to- a parish five acres should be reserved for the poor ; and that another five acres should be reserved for dry inz.ronnd, and another five acres for recreation. He pro posed that a rate of three-pence in the pound should be levied to 'defray the expenses of enclosing these allotments, and that cottages should be erected, the rents of which should be applied to the repayment of the expenses, until a surplus should accrue, which should be paid to the poor fund. Ile further proposed the act should be carried into execution by the tithe commissioners. Sir J. GRAHAM could see nothing in the proposed scheme but a plan for supporting the poor at the expense of the pub lic. It was to be remembered that in general lauds were left waste because of their sterility. He would not, however, oppose the introduction of the bill ! though he wished to guard himself against th e supposition that he thought it likely to benefit the poor. Lord J. MANNERS thought that public' opinion was ra pidly advancing towards supporting some such measure as the one proposed, and he also thought that the present time, when there was an absence of anything like party excitement afloat, was favourable for a trial of the scheme of allot ment. Mr. Hums was of opinion that the capital embarked in a scheme such as this would be found out of all proportion great as compared with the probable chance of a return in the shape of profit. It was bad economy to waste money on barren soils when we might with more advantage exchange our labour for the corn of other countries. Sir J. HANMER said that, instead of there being an ab sence of political feeling in the public mind, there was arising a spirit of discontent to be done with only by passing practical measures for the relief of the people. This mea sure he conceived to be one of that character. Free trade, he was convinced, must come at last, and as to taxing or stopping machinery, they might as well endeavour to alter the course of satellites of Jupiter. Mr. BROTHERTON was opposed to the enclosure of com mon lands, which was generally done for the benefit of the rich and not for the benefit of the poor. Even in this bill there was but a small portion of the enclosed lands to be ap propriated to the poor, and he presumed that the great bulk of them, as in all enclosure bills, was to go to the landed proprietors, who were appropriating to themselves every available common in the country. Mr. S. CrtAwvoan was of opinion that the waste lands could be profitably cultivated. They might not yield a return to the capitalist, but they might be made to give a comforta ble maintenance to the labouring man. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. Sir V. BLAKE moved for leave to bring in a bill to repeal and abolish all the oaths now 'taken by members of parlia ment on taking their seats, except the oath of allegiance. Sir J. GRAsIAM opposed the motion, on the ground that the law as it now stood was the result of an amicable under standing amongst the various religions of the empire which it would be very unadvisable rashly to disturb. Mr. Ross 'supported the motion, on the ground that all oaths ought to be abolished that could by possibility be got rid of. Mr. finatE thought it was absurd to keep up these oaths, after all that this country had done to re-establish the Pope in his dominions. • Sir R. PEEL said it was impossible for him to accede to the moti9n. When tL Catholic Relief Bill passed, one of the securities offered by the Catholics was the oath which it was now proposed to do away with, and which oath, together with the others referred to, was framed with the view of ren dering them as unobjectionable as possible. After a few words from Dr..STooK, Sir V. BLAKE replied, and on a division his motion was negatived by a majority of 10-1 to 17. . . . . Mr. ELPIIIN'STONE moved for leave to bring in a bill for establishing a Court 9f Marriage and Divorce. Sir R. INGLIg opposed the motion on the ground that such a proposition should not be made at so late an hour When it could not be 'discussed. :.54.r..-ELputrisTor4 ft said-his object was to have the bill printed in order that full consideration might be given to it before he proposed the secon d reading. . . After a short discussion the house divided, and the num bers were -17 on each side. The speaker gave his casting vote for bringing in the bill. The orders of the day being disposed of, the house ad journed.. - - HOUSE OF LORDS,-FRIDAY Lord CAMPBELL moved the series of resolutions of which he had given notice, relative to the dispute s i n th e Ch urc h of Scotland, with the 'view of bringing . them to a close by endeavouring to place the qt estion of patronage upon a foot - disagreeable to the people of that country. The noble est attachment to that church, L:et of one of its professors; but hey would not persevere in the g. It was said that they would the church and state in that convinced they would not attempt. course they a course so detriment would not be adopted. The Earl of Airs 1 fo the best interests of Scotland t himself called upon to oppose the resolutions of the noble lord. The church was about at they were told to petition, and if so, would it not have great reason to complain if their lordships decided its case by these utions without hcarin tion. lie believed the . • - resolutions, if adopted, would aggravate the difficulties under which parliament laboured, and he also believed that there were few in that house who were not prepared to oppose the preposterous pretensions put forward by the church. He admitted its value—he believed it had done the most good at establishment of the. kind in the that patronage had been for a long i and without complaint; but time elereised c for hi a part, I. ge to the e nce of the veto. It ;e the r thing that could happen. He hoped the ministers of the i Church of Scotland would pause before resorting to the des- ' perate step alluded to. He did not think the people took much interest in the matter except where they were urged or thrc by ministers. When her Majesty WAS in Scotland he had the honour of accompanying her, and although in the crowds through which thev_had on that occasion to pass, they often No sliding scale," they non-intrusion, which would been the case if the subject had taken a deep hold in the minds of the people. if the threatened secession should take place, which those resolutions would do nothing to avert, no one could say that these parties were driven to it by the heard the cry of " never heard o lot have cisio❑ of that house or by the legislature. The noble earl concluded by moving as an amendment that the house should adjourn. Lord linouGitAm said that those who acted in opposition to the highest courts of judicature in Scotland, and who set at defiance the subsequent decision of their lordships' house, were deserving of the severest reprehension, for their first duty should be obedience to the law. Until they purged their offence in that respect, it was not consistent with the dignity of the house that it should make any concession whatever. The Earl of HADDINGTON opposed the resolutions, and said that the letter of Sir James Graham had already made the ministers of the Church of Scotland aware that the Go vernment was willing to meet their views as far as it was possible for them to do so, and he hoped they would not persevere in adopting the fatal resolutions they had threat ened. Lord COTTENHAM said that the law was decidedly in ac cordance with the judgment in the Auchterarder case. The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was impossible to come to any other decision than that which had been arrived at in the Auchterarder case, consistently with the known and ac knowledged principles of law. Lord CAMPBELL declined. after what had been said during the debate, to press his resolutions to a division. The amendment was then carried, and their lordships ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS.^FRIDA.Y. The consideration of the miscellaneous estimates was re sumed in a committee of supply. The adjourned debate upon the vote for the expenses of the poor law commission was resumed, upon which Colonel SIBTHORP moved that the vote should be reduced to £20,000, that being the amount requisite for the poor law commission for Ireland, where he was of opinion poor laws were really required ; the portion for England he de cidedly objected to. Sir J. GRAHAM said that the refusal of the vote would be an overthrow of the whole system. Captain PECHELL condemned any interference with the Gilbert unions. Mr. lii;E — supported the vote. Mr. FIELDEN hoped the vote would be rejected, as a means of getting rid of the poor law commission. Mr. WAKLEY expressed a similar hope, for he was sure the commissioners would not work without pay. On a division the amendment of Colonel Sibthorp was ne gatived by a majority of 93 to 14. Captain PECRELL moved that a commissioner and two as sistants should be reduced, but the motion was negatived without a division. On the vote of £39,200 for secret service, foreign and do mestic, being proposed, _ Mr. Wu:LiAnis moved a reduction of the vote, on the ground that money for home secret service was unnecessary, if not mischievous, by leading to the employment of spies. Sir G. CLERK said the amount of this vote had been gra dually decreasing. Dr. BownlN said that it had been precisely the same for the last six years. Lord STANLEY said the money was expended by each of the Secretaries of State under the obligation of an oath, and its expenditure was so strictly confidential that he could not discloSe it consistently with his public duty. The committee divided, and the vote was carried by a ma jority of 100 to 13. - On the vote of £38,000 for salaries and law expenses of the treasury, information was required by Mr. T. DUNCOMBE relative to the sum of £15,000 for the expenses of the spe cial commission, and he moved that the vote should be post poned until the information should be granted. His motion was however defeated by a majority of 115 to 43. Several members, and amongst them Mr. Hume, said that unless the required explanations were given, they would move that the chairman should report progress. Sir J. GRAHAM said if hon. members would allow the business in committee to proceed, he would state on Monday whether there was any objection to furnishing the details. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it would be unfair ou this account to stop the progress of the estimates. Lord STANLEY said that £23,000 of the £38,000 was for the current expenses of the year. The remaining £15,000 was for the expense of the special commission, and he ap pealed to the house if it was not reasonable to give time until Monday to decide as to whether the details should or should not be furnished. Mr. F. BARING thought the vote might be postponed without the slightest inconvenience, and it was quite unrea. sonable to ask for a grant of money without assigni❑g a single reason to enable the house to judge of its propriety. Sir J. GRAHAM then assented to the postpo❑ement of the motion. On the vote for the Model Prison at Pentonville, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE adverted to the effects of the separate system which was rigidly enforced in that prison, and which, judging from its effects in the Penitentiary, was likely to pro duce insanity amongst the prisoners. SirJ. GRAHAM said the effects produced at the Peniten tiary were to be attributed to the silent system and not the separate. He was sanguine as to the result of the system adopted at the prison at Peutonville. The vote was agreed to, and the chairman soon after re ported progress. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. THE BLACK PRINCE AND PRINCESS.—We stated, last week, that two relations of Christophe, formerly Emperor of Hayti, had arrived at Southampton from the West Indies. The Prince, if we may so call him, was a kind of butt for the passengers during the voyage. He made great preten sions to dignity. On this foible the passengers played, oc casionally surrounding his royal highness, who, offended at their familiarity, waved them back with his hand, saying that he was not used to be approached so rudely by his in feriors! The Princess spent nearly the whole of the time in her berth. Thi s c i rcumstance wasnoticed by the passen gers, one of w h om , w ith a cu riosity that excuse d hi s bold ness, asked his r o y a l hi g h nes s why her roy a l hi g h ness l ay so much in bed. Th e P r i n ce candidly confessed, that his princess was short of clothes ! •But, chinking the dollars in his pocket, said, with much glee, " These buy her plenty of fine clothes when she get to London." PRIZE FtorrriNG.—On Tuesday last a prize fight was an nounced to take place somewhere in the vicinity of Kirkby Lonsdale. The circumstance had, of course, reached the ears of the police, and Inspector Armytage proceeded to the neighbourhood of Kirkby Lonsdale, rind found the ropes ar ranged in a field, where a large crowd of persons had assem bled. The Inspector applied immediately to E. Tatham, Esq., and that magistrate granted a warrant to the Inspector, who thereupon warned the parties off, and prevented the fight, so far as the county of Lancaster was concerned. Sus pecting that the scene of conflict would be transferred to the neighbouring county of Westmoreland, the Inspector con sulted with the authorities, and the result was that the com batants were driven out of W4tetmoreland also. The fight subsequently took place at a spot called Scotch Jeans, in Yorkshire, as many as five thousand persons being present to witness it, but owing to the interruptions that had occur red, the affair did not happen till late in the day. The prin cipals were one Gouldie, a Scotchman, and Langan from Liverpool. We understand these men fought for two whole hours and seventeen minutes, having during that period had nearly one hundred rounds. So dreadfully reduced were both men, that they fought at last upon their knees, and only gave in from pure exhaustion Ward and other celebrated fight ers accompanied the parties, and we understand the stake was £l5O a-side.—Laneaster Gazette. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUN.—At the trial of the Staffordshire rioters, Mr. Serjeant Talfourd thus concluded his reply to the defence of the prisoners. "The defendant Cooper promised us he would show that the members and agents of the Anti-Corn Law League were the originators of these most afflicting outrages in the Potteries. Gentlemen, I need scarcely say, because you know it, there has not been a tittle of evidence produced in proof of that assertion. Gen tlemen, I do not stand here to defend the Messrs. Ridgway, nor have I any sympathy with the members of the Anti-Corn Law League. If, as stated in that able publi ca ti on t h e Quar terly R ev i ew , suc h s t a t e ments as M r . C ooper quoted have been utt ere d , th en I say the parties givin g u tt erance to t h ose statements ought to be prosecuted. The only time whenever I have said anything about the corn laws was in this place, when I was addressing a jury upon some exciting language reported in a local newspaper. l then took occasion to say, and I now repeat it, that of all subjects in the world to which popular Passion should be the last directed, gild which ought to be inquired into after statistic examinations, with calm and philosophic thought, that question was as to the restrictions or non -restrictions imposed upon the food of man—the ques tion of all others which ought to be deprecated. Gentlemen, I cannot conclude without also referring to a quotation which I then made from a speech of Mr. Curran :—" I have known tumult and disorder make many a rich man poor, but never knew it make a poor man rich!" THE COMET.—Public attention having been excited in no ordinary degree by the passage of one of the great family of comets through our system, may I be allowed to offer one remark through the medium of your widely circulating jour nal? I would advert to that fear which thousands, and among the number many well-educated people, never fail to experience at the appearance of these mysterious bodies. They have only, however, to dwell on one fact, Apd their apprehensions will, in a great measure be di ss i pa tTd, I al lude to the extr aor di nary rarity of the substance composing the bodies of comets, and on which sufficient stress is not, I think, generally laid. Through the centre of Encke's comet stars of the fifth magnitude have been known to shine. The comet that approached Saturn so near that it was thought danger must have happened to that planet, was found to have produced no apparent erect upon its motion ; and the comet of 1454, which passed between our earth and the moon, did not even disturb that small satellite. The notion, then, of Halley's comet, or any other having caused the deluge, seems to be scarcely admissible ; and startling as the assertion may appear, it is impressed on me, that since the gaseous substance of which comets are composed is many times raret than the atmosphere we breathe—for the ray of no star could possibly p erme at e 50 , 000 m i les of so dense a medium as the latter —even were a cornet to approach within the attraction of the earth, so as to be drawn to its very embraces, the light and subtile fluid, so far from corn ing in contact with the solid portion of our sphere, or even disturbing our tides, would merely float and be diffused on the confines of our atmosphere, engirding, of course, that atmosphere completely, but neither obscuring our day, nor hiding the stars from our vision at night.—Correspondent. AERIAL STEAM C ARItIAGE.—We gave in our last a de scription of this novel machine. The London Journal of Arts and Sciences, after mentioning the invention as a chi mera the most visionary and fallacious, goes on to describe it as follows :--" The a p paratus consists of a car, containing the goods, passengers, e ng i ne, fuel, &c. ; to which a rectangular frame, made of wood or bamboo cane, and covered with can vass, or oiled-silk, is attached ; this frame extends, on either manner to the out-stretched wings side of the car, in a shnilat of a bird, but with this difference vable. Behind the —that the frame is imme s are two vertical fan-wheels, fur vanes, which are intended to propel the appar,— the air. These wheels receive motion through hands and pulleys, from a steam or other engine, contained in the car. To an axis at the stern of the car, a triangular frame is attached, resembling the tail of a bird, which is ako covered with canvass or oiled-silk ; this may be expanded or contracted at pleasure, and is moved up or down, for the purpose of causing the machine to ascend or descend. —Beneath the tail is a rudder, for directing the course of the machine to the right or to the left; and, to facilitate the steering, a sail is stretched between two masts which rise from the car. The amount of canvass or oiled-silk, neces sary for buoying up the machine, is stated to be equal to one square foot for ea c h h a lf pound weight, the whole apparatus being about 3,000 lbs., and the area of surface spread out to support it„ 4,500 square feet; in the two wings, and 1 , 5 00 in the tail,—making a lt oget h er 6,000 square feet. The engine is proposed to he of f rom 2 5 to 30 horse power. It is stated in the specification, th a t on launching the machine into the air, an elevated situati on must be selected, an d t h e mac hi ne allowed to run some distance down en inclined plane, for us throb VIIICII purpose vertical wheels arc attached to the bottom of he car or boat. Wh en t h e machine has thus acqu ired a mo nentum, the rotary f an-w h eels are put in act i on to raise it t°the used air anti regulating i itproel i t t l s l co er u u r d s d e e . r, appended to the car, then niF,ATRE-ROYAL, WILLIAAISON-SQUARI Madame CELESTE, Mr. WEBSTER, and Mr. STRICKLAND, of the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, FOR SIX NIGHTS . HIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 4th instant, 1 the PRETTY GIRLS OF ATELBERG. A LOVER BY PROXY. AND MARIE DUCA NGE. In each of which Madame Celeste, Mr. Webster, and Mr Strickland, will sustain their original characters. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS. The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of Me manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday —occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it a f fords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. TO CMRESPONDENTS. " Musicus." We believe Miss Weller was taught entirelg by her mother. That lady received instruction from Chianehe flint. NE CVSPAPE R RETURNS. Extract from a parliamentary paper, showing the number of stamps used by each Liverpool paper during the six months ending December 31st, 1842, and the advertisement duty paid by each : No. of Pub. No. of Stamps. Av. Cir. Adv. Duty. Mercury 27 190,000.. .. .. 7,037 .....E 589 7 0 Albion 26 Courier .... 26 Chronicle ..26 Advertiser .. 26 Journal .. . .26 STANDARD* 53 Myers .26 28,000 1,076 .... 448 16 0 Mail 69 Times .26 * The only paper published twice a-week in Liverpool. t The Albion of yesterday says that they have authority for stating that 36,000 stamps were taken out for the use of the Times, though they have credit for only half the number. Elie ?Lib trpo ol tlitgaratt, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1843. The successful result of the petition against the return of Mr. Walter for Nottingham is calculated to excite some misgivings, as to the soundness of the present law and practice in cases of contested elec tions. It was proved before the committee that, in the case of some fifteen or twenty voters, of the lowest class, bribery —admitting that the payments made might be called such, which is more perhaps than is warrantable—had been practised to an extent the most insignificant. Compared with' previous elections in the borough, venality might almost be said to have ceased altogether. It was distinctly admitted by the committee that the sitting member himself was not cognisant of the slightest malpractice. No proof of agency, sufficient to connect Mr. Walter with the pro ceedings of the half-dozen individuals, who had made the disbursements which have invalidated his election, was established; and yet the committee, blowing hot and cold in a breath, having already stated not only that Mr. Walter had not authorised such acts of any body —not only that he had no agents for such illegal purposes—but that he was :absolutely ignorant of any illegal practices, proceeds to declare that he had been, " by his agents, guilty of bribery," and, as the result, he is incapacitated from sitting again in the present parliament Now here, we submit, is an anomaly, or rather a se ries of anomalies, which are rather startling. A gen tleman of high consideration, and known ability and integrity, who has sought the representation of a bo rough, is, by the friends and agents of his defeated opponent put upon his trial ; and, after a lengthened and expensive enquiry, pronounced not guilty of the charges alleged against him--for that is virtually the ver dict of the committee. And yet the accused and morally acquitted party, is to be visited, for acts over which he had no control, with the temporary forfeiture of the highest privilege of a subject For a few trivial cases of malpractice in others, an innocent man is disfran chised ; whilst the admitted delinquents --the heralds of their own shame—who had given evidence against him, and probably embraced or sought corruption that they might so give evidence, are left in the undisturbed enjoyment of their immunity of self-.prostitution! Here then is anomaly the first. But, if Mr. Walter was not duly elected, the de claration of the committee might have been expected to be that Mr. Sturge, his opponent, was so elected. We do not find, however, that such was the case. The pure and patriotic friends of this gentlemen, after they had unseated his opponent, do not turn round to the committee and say, " we have proved corruption against the sitting member, and we now propose to shew that our own acts are stainless." No ;—for what reason we need scarcely say, for it will be readily guessed at—Mr. Sturge at once withdraws from before the committee, thus refusing to submit his own purity to its scrutiny; and, as the result, whilst his late oppo nent is declared unworthy of a seat in Parliament, he himself, unpurged from the taint which his refusal to submit to enquiry is calculated to fix upon him—mo rally innocent, no doubt, but perhaps legally as guilty as Mr. Walter—becotnes a candidate to represent the borough of Nottingham. Here, then, is anomaly the second. Now, we ask, if such is the state of the law, or such its interpretation by committees—if the unauthorised acts of a few individuals, (whose utmost connection with the candidate is the privilege of entering his com mittee-room, or acting as a canvasser upon some sub committee), are to be visit e d upon hi m, w i th so heavy a doom as incapacity to sit in the Parliament existing— what security can any gentleman have, however care ful and however determined not to offend, in the issue of a contested election ? What need prevent any party —such a body, for instance, as the Anti-Corn-law- League—by a judicious employment of agents divided constituencies, with the means to bribe some: half-score of voters—disabling, at any future general election, every eminent member of the House of Com mons? Surely half-a-dozen Tamworth electors, for instance, might be got into a dark room, and have a. sovereign each put into their hands; and if the briber only made himself busy enough, could run in and out of a committee-room, could foist his person into a. prominent position upon the hustings, and be seen. shaking hands. with the candidate, and we might have. Sir Robert Peel himself declared by a comm ittee perfectly • innocent of any knowledge of the acts of the party in question, yet "guilty of bribery by his agents," and incapacitated to sit in Parliament for a period possibly of seven years! In justification of such strange law and practice, Lord John Russell maintains that a few examples of its working will put down the practice of bribery, and other irregularities, even by: authorised agents; that indiscreet parties will cease to act illegally when they see their acts so prejudicial to the object of their eh oice. `Why, what strange logic is this ! We must punish the innocent, that the guilty, whom we allow to go scot free, may be convinced that their crime has been ineffectual to produce its object! Really, my lard, if the object is only to deter unauthorised parties from practices fatal to the seat of a candidate, it wouAl be rather the more sensible plan to punish those pa rties themselves, and not their victim. Let bribers anil re cipients of bribes, where cognisance cannot be pry wed against the candidate, be punished with disfranc?dise ment, either on proof before a committee, or any .legal tribunal ; and then, we conceive, we may get; rid cr,F the practice, with out the commission o f such i?alpable, in ustice as has been committed in the c: ise of Mr. Walter. It is not imarnitsitW, by the way, to observe, the hilts which are being adOted by Mr. Joseph Sterne to steer clear, at the approaching election for Notting-. ham, of the danger which the late committee has placed in the way of all future candidates for a contested bo rough. The worthy quaker stipulates, not only that he shall be put to no extraordinary expenses, but that he shall not even contribute to the usual expense of hustings, &c. Now without staying to remark upon the dangerous principle which the practice of such ultra-purism establishes—a principle which virtually places the choice of a member for any large consti tuency in the clique of monied busybodies who subscribe the necessary funds, for placarding, coach-hire, hustings, and other necessary expenses, without which few elec tions can be carried to a successful issue—how does the caution of the worthy friend, and ultra immaculate, guard him from the fate of Mr. Walter ? The latter gentleman, equally with Mr. Sturge, provided against the allowance of any illegal expenses; and we are not aware that all the discretion of the borough of Not tingham is centred in the Sturgeite party! If any future enquiry into the doings of Joseph, however prudishly they may have been conducted, should be confided to a committee, similar in discernment to that by which Mr. Walter was unseated, we wouldn't give sixpence for his chance ! The exposition of the law, by Mr. Justice Coltman, on Tuesday last, in the case of Birley and another v. the Hundred of Salford, may not have startled any person who has ever given a thought to the subject; but it is one, nevertheless, which is calculated to fur nish matter of uneasy reflection to our good neigh bours of Manchester and Bolton, with respect to the price which, some day, they may be called upon to pay for their favourite hobby —INCORPORATION. Doubt less, in " liberal" estimation, it is a delightful thing to write " councillor" after one's name; to be spoken of as " the excellent representative for" this ward or the other ; to be addressed as " Mr. Alderman" So-and-so ; and to look forward to the prospect of some day ap pending, to our patronymic, the sounding title, " Mayor." Then there are the delights of holding sessions of our own; of having a gaol of our own ; of having prAoners of our own, to be tried by our own recorder, and prosecuted by our own town-clerk; and these inexpensive (?) pleasures are of course heightened by the reflection that they are paid for out of the pockets of our very dear friends and neigh bours ! But enamoured, as the " liberal" people of Manchester and Bolton may be, with these novelties, we suspect that the decision, as to the question of law, in the above case, will be a slight damper to their in corporation felicities ; and may even lead some of them to think that they have paid " too much for their whistle." The case of Birleys v. the Hundred of Salford, which was reported in our last, was one arising out of the recent disturbances in the manufacturing dis tricts; in the , course of which the factory of the plain tiff was attacked by the mob, and damaged to the amount of some two to three hundred pounds. The ordinary proceeding in such cases has been to sue the hundred; and this course was pursued by Messrs. Birley, and resisted by the defendants, on the ground mainly that, the town of Manchester, being now an incorporated borough, and, as such, ceasing to contri bute to the county rate, any action for damages, received during periods of popular commotion within its limits, should be brought against the borough, and not, as heretofore, against the hundred. The verdict was for the plaintiff', upon the facts, the point of law, as to the respective liability of the hundred or the borough, being left to be argued before the courts above, the opinion of the learned judge, however, being quite •decisively enough expressed to settle any doubt which could be entertained as to the issue of such an appeal. , The comfortable assurance received by our newly incorporated friends from this exposition of the law is, briefly, this. If an outbreak, got up in the neighbour hood—chartist, anti-corn-law, or otherwise—for the sake of more striking effect, choose to centralise its demonstrations in either of the boroughs in question, and the mob, by way of recreation, indulge themselves in the destruction of a factory or two, the inhabitant householder,'- and not the ratepayers of the hundred must pay for any destruction of property which may arise. If the weavers and spinners of Ashton, or any, other town, shall henceforth be escorted into Man chester, it may be safely inferred that they are " doing the honours" to an approaching borough rate ! When justices of the peace are busy advising submission to turbulent mobs, and—hard case !--Lare condemned to sleep nights together at the York Hotel, and—Worse still—to attend for da together at the Town-hall, it may be concluded that; if they are not keeping the peace, they are at least getting the tax papers ready ! In short, playing at rebellion, within any reasonable distance of the towns of Manchester and Bolton, is from henceforth likely to be a rather expensive game for the unfortunate people of these Whig-riddeto towns ; and this for the sake of the empty bauble of a corpo ration without a groat to pay for its own keeping ! Seriously, it may now be well worthy the considera tion of our neighbours in Manchester how far the keeping up of a ceaseless agitation—in any outbreak of which the safety of property in that borongh must be especially perilled—is consistent with their inte rests. They are placed in the centre of an excitable, and at all times, more or less, a suffering, and may we not also add, a demoralized and ignoratrt population. The silly vanity of a dominant clique—which must strut, forsooth, in corporate dignity—has placed them in the position that, while osed, i n th e natural course of things, t o th e co ation of pop u l ar vio lence from every si d e , t h ey are condemned now to bear, unassisted, the entire damage which may ensue to the vast mass of property within the town ; and surely, when such is the case, a wise generation would sedulously eschew any thing calculated to produce that popular excitement to which ignorance or wickedness may give so fatal a direction ! The Conservative body in Manchester, too, may now ask themselves the ques tion, whether it is the part of sensible men to persevere in that silly and pettish objection to contest with the dominant party the municipal gevernment of the town, the obvious result of which is to entrust the safety of their property and the preservation of peace and good order to a set of incapahles. We throw out the hint for their serious consideration. LOCAL NE WS PHRENO-MAGNETISAL—A cou eof lectures on this sub ject will be commenced at the Royal Assembly Rooms this evening. We believe that some very curious experiments will be brought forward. THE ROSE LIGHT.—The new arrangement of gas burners - may be seen in great perfection in Mr. Stafford's shop in Church-street. The light emitted is almost, if not quite, as intense as the Bade. SELLING BEER AND SPIRITS WITHOUT A LICENSE.—O n Friday, at the police-court, two persons were charged with this offence. One was fined £5 and costs, and the case against the other was dismissed, in consequence of his being new to the business and a stranger in the town. A REFRACTORY PAIJPI;R.—A. female pauper, of the West Derby Union Workhouse, Low-hill, was brought up before Mr. Rushton, on. Friday, charged with behaving in a most outrageous and unbecoming manner. She was sentenced to pay a fine of 40s. and costs, or, in. default, to be sent to prison. • j We are informed that the Warehouse-keepers' Association . have come to the resolution of allowing their landlords seven and a half per cent per annum on the outlay in altering the warehouses agreeably to the Fire Preventio n Bill and insur ance to them. COMMITTALS.—On Saturday, at the Police -court, Gerire Fowler was committed for trial'. for stealing a quantity of silk from a bonded warehouse in Robert- street, North.—On ' the same day Esther Williams, a servant girl, was also com mitted for stealing money from the coat girl, of a gentle man who lodged at the house where she was se: vane • i 1 , PASSENGERS PER GREAT W ESTERN. ---M r . J. H. Booth, Mr. G. Converse, Captain Cumming Major Denny, Mr. and Mrs. Fox, Mr. J. Ferguson, Mr. Victor Fauchrl Mr. Mai‘eirares.., :Mr. J. B. Murray, Miss Murray, Mr. Edward Massey, TRansome and three children, Mr. J. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. appan, Mr. Rich ar d T ras k , M r. J. Thornley, Mr. J. Town_ y, Mr. Pounder, and Mr. Weesendenk. SUDDEN DEATII.—On Saturday night last, an old woman, blamed Multy Jones, who lived at No. 22, Fleet-street, went out to take a walk, and on her return complained of being very ill. Her son instantly ran for Mr. M'lntyre, surgeon, %who was soon in attendance, but on his arrival she breathed 11.,•er last. 'SAVAGE CASE OF ASSAULT.—On Friday a man, name Samuel Smeth urs t, was p l ace d at t h e bar, on a charge of of comm the i Feathers' T avern , a and stabbitting a savage assult on the person of Mr. Hughes, nk , him in th e left arm with a knif e . M r. R us h ton orderod t'Sraethurst to pay £5 a:ad costs, or two months' imprisonment, and afterwards find trivo sureties in £5O each, to give forty-eight hours' notice excuse,only sucht thereof, or, in default, to be imprisoned two months more. SPECIAL JURIES.—An erroneous impression prevails, that rs theyare will d as age I p e e t r f s e o r n t s o s th u e mm un on d e e d r. o sh n e S r i ff re , c s i t a a l ti J n u g r a ier e ;•erl not . be We are informed, that such of no avail, fin, rd. or sickness, for their non-attendance, who had sent letters, were Several. jurors, but that the Co ur t requires all such excuse s t o be Verified by' an a Ridavit, or oa th i n open court. fined £25 each at the lute assizes at Lan caster. TR FROM 13 —A child, Tirane(' Ellin Coolly s taken to the Infirmary 06 until Sunday last, when she whose clothes lout taken w the 4th ult., where Ole lingered DEPARTURE OF AN IRON STEAMER. FOR THE 1 1 " .1 C, The iron steamer the loyal Soveteign, formerly running e.. tween Liverpool and Glasgow, h av i ng b een bought by ,a ' 1 2% chant, sailed on Thursday, under the command of GlP's',l Fender, for Singapore. She will call at Rio de Janiero, an thence steam and sail to her destination. She will, we un derstand, be employed on the coast of China, and sail betwee n Hongkong and the newly opened Chi n e se port. Her spe ed is great, and'hyr light draught of water will enable her toa u s a ccnd the rivers., She took out several p asseng ers, and a f compliment of engineers, stokers, &c., who arc en gagetnents for a period of years. FINES UPON PUBLICANS.—The publicans summoned on Friday were fewer in number than for the last two or th . r . ee . weeks past, although the offences were of a more miseellaf neous character than is generally their wont. Mr. 1 181 °'„ o .. Brick=street, was ordered to pay £5 and costs, it being ,n",, derstood that the case might be re-opened on a future d a y John Morgan, Key-street, 40s. and costs; John 1 48 Y e 1.! Vauxhall-road, 20.; Mr. Magee, Spitalfields, 50s. • Franc'. M'Gowan, Parr-street, (third conviction,) £5; John De an ! Derby-street, acquitted. Beer-house keepers :--Catharine under Jockeson, 20s. ; Thomas Copeland, Pall-mall, ( sec ond c 0 ,1 1" viction,) tiOs. ; James Button, Hill-street, Park, for allowing rioting and drunkenness in his house, 405.; Hugh Heron! H Baxter -street, postp one d ; Ed war d ughes, Chauc e r-strear postponed; George Briggs, Pembroke -street, acquitted. CAUTION TO OUR CHESHIRE NEIGHBOURS.—An imPer; tinent urchin, apparently about fourteen years of age, dressr. in light fustian, or jean, is in the constant practice of 'iv", ing gentlemen from their houses in a morning; and having ascertained their names, he goes to the houses with his bas ket of biscuit, and says, " M r . S o -n n d- so desired me to leave one, two, or three pouads, for which you were to Pay me." In answer to inquiries, he is very apt at describitg the figure, dress, &c. of the gentleman, and becomes exce, e t ingly insolent if lie cannot make the parties his dupes , u u , takes care not to leave the bi scu it s w ith ou t b e ing paid fo' them. We trust some one will lay hands on this young rogue, and check him in his decepti ve c areer , w hich may time harden him into an accomplished villain. _ • SMUGGLING TOBACCO FROM ON BOARD SHIP.—A IVir' man, named Joseph Gart, was yesterd a y pl ac ed before Rushton, at the Police-court, on a charge of endeavouring to smuggle lib. of cigars. The vessel to which he belonged had recently arrived from Zante. The case was proved, it . "' he was fined 205., or, in default, to be imprisoned 7 daps' A foreign seaman, named Christi ana , was b rou ght up on: charge of smuggling nibs. of cigars a nd l ea f tobacco. T h d contraband articles were found in his chest, which he landed on the Victoria Dock qu a y. Th e p r i so ner and th e captain of the vessel said there was no int en tion nd whateve r er to smuggle them, and that they were mer e ly the retrial of his own stores. This evidence was not, however, colloid dered sufficient to exonerate the pri soner , an d he was fi n e v 20s. and costs, or to b e i m p r i sone d 10 d ays . The 0311eJ was paid. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On the 26th ult., wh, ilell poor widow named Cath e ri n e Willi ams , was engage d in „„ ing, the clothed of one of her children cad ht fire, and in en deavouring to exti ngu i s h the fire, her own dress becanr, ignited. Her cries brought in a man, who succeeded in p u : ting out the fire rou n d th e c hild, b ut t h e poor woman , rrle a 'i, time, ran out into the streei, an d fl e d a ll th e way to lim e° r street, a distance of about . 100 yards, when a police-office wrapped his coat round her, and put out the fire. She was, however, so dreadfully burned, that, though she was irniute diately taken 'to the Northe rn H os pit a l, an d car efullYin Su nday last. to, she died of the i n j ur i es s h e sus t a i ne d on S ul % last. The child i s recover i ng : Th e police-officer was severely burned in extinguishing the fire. Th e d e ceased W a s an industrious woman, who strove by washing, &e., to B°s port herself and her two children. Th e i nques t w ill be be this day. DREADFUL ACCIDENT WHILE CLEANING A W r iarD °/v i ; —Yesterday, about 11 o'clock i n th e f orenoon , as a 1 0 , named Thomas Waring was employed, in cleaning a win d % in the first floor over the shop of Me ssrs . J ones a nd Sont g * Castle-street, and was on the outside i n th e ac t of Pu l p down the lower sash, he lo s t hi s b a l ance , f e ll h ea dlong n' to the street, from a height of about 15 f ee t, an d was ,killea °, the spot, his skull being dreadfully fr ac tu r ed. Th e deceased: who was 60 years of age, was a dece n t man , a nd had b..; several years in Messrs. Jones's service, as porter. practice of servants (male and female) not generally ecCF,, toined to - such hazardous employment, cl ean i ng upper 11 4 . 0 o lows while standing on the sto n e ou t s id e , cann ot be much discouraged. The very appearance of persons, an. particularly of females, s/ situated, is painful to passers b id and it would be well that all windows that cannot be reach? from the inside, should be cleaned by glaziers or Pain t6s, who have either a proper frame, or ladder, for the purpose' THE PACKET-SHIPS OXFORD AND PATRICK HE 101( .1,:1 The Packet-ship Oxford, Captai n Rathb one , w hich sa l from NeW York on'the Ist tilt. ,•did not arrive until Sat j u day last. On the 16th, in lat. 48 30, lon. 29, in a 5 101 9 e0 , and violent whirlwind, she carried away h e r f orem ast ros 1 " topgallant mast, main topsail yard, and sustai n ed consi° el„, i o able damage. One man was lost overboard from the In a h topgallant yard. From that time until her making port k etc has encountered almost conti n u a l e a s t er ly ga l es . The s e . ford did not speak any thing during the whole pas° s " 6 Cabin passengers, Mil. Denni s on, t wo c hild ren , an d sera °a Mr. de la Hooke, Mr. Wliitlaws, Mr. Bis s et and lady, f i g , Mr. Carroll; and thirty-fi ve i n the s t eerage . The Pack ship Patrick Hen r y, C a pt a i n D e l ano , w hi c h sa il e d from the York on the 10th ult., also arrived on Saturday last. had been six days on the coast, with strong easterly w' rJ ,,,t, Cabin passengers, Lie u t. W e b s t er , I s t R oya l Regirn e ;,; Lieut. Leader, 22d ; ReV: Mr. Condil, Rev. Mr. Antir e ," 4 . Mr. Vogt, New York ; M r . C onnor , B o l ton. • Th e pact ship Sheffield was to sail On the 17th. hio MISS WELLER.—We gave in our last our opinion of latly's performance at the Philharmonic Concert, and,..b may now add, that though perhaps the most talented Eng..` l , j ., piattiste of the age, she is not much in advance of her sis o r . Mrs. J. C. Shaw : ,they have been heard, in private, by In a ri - c l professors in Cheltenham, Liverpool, and other places: .1;.. the universal opinion has ever been, that, when they o f course sweet music" in co ncer t, i t i s t h e ne p l us zillrqh-s science, harmony, concord, an d f ee li ng . A s a proo f that tbe two sisters excel in their own pecu li ar s t y l e, eac h thinks other the superior pl a y er ; a b eaut if u l ill ustrat i on o f tair i- i and purity of mind. Th ere i s a thi r d s i ster, on l y 13 Ye3r 9v a age, who bids fair to reach the goal which has been a ttain .g by Miss Christiana- Weller, for her execution of the 11)° b difficult composition s an d th e f ee li ng t h rown i n t o her to'ho are astonishing ; and yet, beyond what nature has k i r he jt done for them, who has been their preceptress talented. Mother. h i el' A TRUANT YOUTH.—On Friday a b o y, o f respee,•--,-: gir terior, named Willi am R utter, was placed before Mr • hill ton, on suspicion of having absconded from the roof ° f e . parents witlfbut leave. From the evidence of a,persen, er nected with the police-office, it appeared that the pr `.', 0 0 had been noti ce d l ur ki ng a b out Dale-street, on the pre day, in the company of railway porters, from whom he A ri o nicking inqui r i es w hi c h l ed to a s uspicion that lie be t he good object in view. It was afterwards elicited that be boy's parents resided in Birmingham, from which to w q,,o had eloped without their consent, to gratify some whi rl ' c oo he had not into Isis head. It al s o a pp eare d t h a t he had C o es from B irm i ng h am by railway, having paid his own Pot thence, but h ow h e b ecame possessed of the money nnel appear. On being taken into custody, a small sum of 1 13 1 100 , was found-up on hi s person. M r. Rushton asked the re,- motive for leaving borne in the way he had done, e n ceived for answer that he (the prisoner)- wanted to g 0 tO and was about following up his intention when the peli aa ,, o e! hands up on hi m . M r. .Rushton.—" G o t o sea ; no"% n iog You wo u ld b e b etter o ff i n your father ' s pigstye than by to sea." Mr. Rushton gave orders that the boy's r el4 l l t o should be made acquainted with his present position, al l 00 the meanti me th at l o d g i ngs should be taken for b i n' . t 1 answer was received respecting his future disposal. P at BEGGING.—The magistrates having determined 1 17 . 0 06 down street begging, no fewer than forty-six men i u, l ng eg , were yesterday brought before Mr. Rushton, of B "Thei,f from children to decrepit persons, and of both sexes- be d respective cases, where they were not before know n, previously been inquired into by the police-officers wh a ss it! prehended them ; and M r . G ray, o f t h e parish-office, `vatted attendance. Several of them, old offenders, were colW a s ide• to gaol for seven or fourt een d ays, or a month. A °florae rable number who were found to be in great destitution into set down to be visited and relieved ; others to be take a eo in the workhouse, and s ome t o b e passed to their Parise- eicit Ireland and elsewhe re . S ome of them were in the lioue' receipt of outdoor re li e f , b ut ge n erally of so smal l an al"npeo' compared with the n ec e ss iti es o f t h e part i es, or t h e ir 1 ; 0 11' tive families, that Mr. Rushton remarked upon tb e . i nc lill" quacy of such payments, which necessarily left the I Mr . duals no resource but begging, or perhaps stealing. ,_ooe, Gray agreed, in such cases, to take the parties into the "_ sc ere or more effectually to relieve them out of doors. Thereesoi amongst them several cases of severe family sicked thic Some of the more destitute from Ireland were told clothing wou ld b e provided for them before they wer e to their parishes. viNG AND CONCEALING TOBACCO IN A D~~E r ' e r red —At the Police-court a charge was yesterday lo a tt iY:i a man name d J o h n W a i nwr i g h t, ( not i n ces nc eln" whO was st a l e d to b e a shipwright, of ". having and 7 1 . 0 ,910; ing in his house a quantity of illi c it tobacco." Ml' ; „ 5 t solicitor for the Customs, conducted the case ng a ' - n earr" - , defendant, and called several revenue officers. It a l' a rgelT from this testimony, that in November last, in cons : e l6ki i i of souse information, the defendant's house, in I llg e eal e f street, was searched by two officers, who found, ca l, , bt ° amongst, some shavings in a basket up stairs, 9 lbs. wei7 a ccof Cavendish and Negro-head tobacco, and 4lbs. of leaf t', 9 2 ,, the former worth 9s. 6d. a pound, and the latter ' w ith ( 1 including the duty. The defendant had been serve d ' ed e s ummons, but had trot appeared. The Board 11 5 c. against him. for .triple the value, -namely, 4,14. 1 /SW"; though they might have 'one for the full penaltY ° . 1 , 0 0 91 , - A WOITIAD, it appeared, lodged in the house, wino svas the as an active smuggler. The tobacco was valued by ' the tie; ing Queen's warehouseman. A wan appeared ,for o° li h t o fendant, and said the article was left there wd";, ) cl knowledge ; but this was not taken as a defene e c - stat e a defendant was adjudged to be mulcted in the atrion". o Instructions were given to an officer of the police him apprehended. ItOUSt against 'd exaiicse2dr Yates,UGGL:, a . s — y A e s res pectable-looking er( the 3o lce r ...-court, on a charge of smuggling twelv e I :4s oe , oroacco. It appeared from the evidence'that the I ; o clic t il i had arrived from New York by the Patrick Henn"' d e o ship, and had landed his luggage, amoncst which w3- fi tol, h ul l ay placeci at P b e a o to box, which the officer who searched it found tO c e : g boa ,- in which were the packets of tobac e° o (P oo timo told the officer that the box wa s yer j Pl'operty, and that he had merely brought it 101'1 1 fr iet: .e whom he had known in America, to be delivered t°_, o f e re of the former in this country. The other contenires'i, package were a few newspapers, a book, some Orr ' wa de d.' small baskets, &c. The prisoner sa;d he had been j, dupe of in the matter. The box was given to him ' o gli t i o t schoolfellow of his when he lived in the south Of oo rt t .fit to be delivered as a present to a friend here. v a ireel, i t he person requested him to bring it. he (prisoner) inq 1 30 0 . 0 % contained anything that was chargeable with d at i'to V o i r reply was that it did not. lie therefore consente u hat it co it along with . his luggage, and (lid not know believe tabled. Mr. Rushton said he was disposed to it prisoner's story, and ordered him to be discharged COUNCIL. MILETING.—The usual meeting of .t ll , e 5 ° f t ° ° will be h e ld t o morrow, w h en, a f ter the proceed, l , l ( l ;iag it dig various committ ees h ave b een di scusse d, the Thstroit.• tions will be made:—By Mr. Councillor North' Coraor proper and expedient that this Council or the Doc k _ on d tee, or those two bodies conjointly, should provido_ em plO, it h tail a powerful steam-boat or steam-boats, to be an d o od "0 in aid of the present and with additional life-boa t . by ° a d, other necessary and useful apparatus to be catt le life., steam-boat or steam-boats, in the preservation _!,,cositt property (but more especially of life) upon the and tr,tee shipwreck or other disaster at sea off this port,; Co ~ ' d t his deputation be app o i n t e d t o con f er w ith the DoeV ect ipg 4io ot or a deput a ti on o f th a t b o d y , w ith th e v i e w of _ e a oP e s oth' object. B y M r . Ald erman E ar l e, —Th a t it is „ l er° o er to dispose of the houses i n H anover - s treet, whic"the P o w, drawn fr om th e p u bli c sa l e on th e 13th inst, a l o d fo o t sion of th em b y th e C orporat i on appears to 1 , do t r . be e! able opp or t un ity f or a b a ti ng cer t a i n nu isances the town, for the general remedy of which clatt s e s o bto es introduced into tw o A c t s o f Parliament reeetohTpict,ot`titiol: By Mr. Councill o r B us h e ll,—F or th e loan of the Town-hall to the Directors of the Collegla'u r v acs, during th e p er i o d o f th e approac hi ng MidsnT 1 rn 'o) 4e with a vi ew t o th e i r f orm i ng part o f as inten!iu Exhibition. CIIARGE 01 named the Polk prisoner at of M V tiv to fol licenc and s