The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-03 00:00:00

BY lEETI liamen EXPRESS. PARIAA I t Night's London Su apon to NDER ROYAIi LIVER THEkfRE Fifth Appearance THIS EVENI g of Par- meetin was observed to prevail 3wn. Her Maje st y having deter- THIR T 1 a in persor 1 manne havrng the Lori a summ ad from AENT ( MR. R. CIVELAND ay,) the 3d FehO BRIDE OF LA.AIIVIFAAIOOR YEARS ( ude witt A GA. S VISIO nt, will ILER' S LIFI TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c lay increased and most STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify- QUEEN'S SPEECH. in g power of u rging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion " My' Lords and Gentlemen, of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to f a tr THE !ommanded by her Majesty to acquaint you bring t._ sty receives from all Princes and States assur the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of y, and of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of y in the the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, ir advertisements before the notice of buyers in s with ( The skill, valo spicuous, an disposition towards 3 co-operate with he ais cour !r Maj( 1 peace strict, our her Ma; sty has concluded wil however, the centre of the manufacturing u,‘,_ adjustment of those publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most int -4 continuance had endangered portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its her Majesty trusts that the arnica- Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased a, and by untries have been confirmed the liberality of parlia- I as which b was enabled to make fo, a have bee n eminently and discipline of he termination I successful naval and milt- and increasing interest Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to Pon this service have been most con- I led to the conclusion of peace upon the I receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords Majest: us great pleasure to assure those of our friends' amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver- Her Nlajesty rejoices in the prospect that by the free be opened to the ortncloal marts of that ncouragement vviwbe given tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. s and extensive enav TO CORRESPONDENTS but shall leave the m Liver petition to Parliament, r iu our correspondent's Live and let Live" knows nothing about the theatre ques tion; he cannot have read the newspapers lately, or he would not have troubled us with his letter. Had he not better apply for a month or two's instruction at one of the Corporation Schools before he attempts to become a news- paper contributor medial • A Truthtarian " has no right to expect ❑s to insert his letter, unless he favours us in confidence with his ❑ame: ication of 'rue Churchman e conceive it our duty, as " true churchmen," not to hold up to public censure the ministerial conduct of clergymen, unless manifestly improper tioa, as t In some of the earliercopies of our Tuesday's edition there ap peared one or two verbal inaccuracies in the speech of the Rev. H. M‘Neile, which sere afterwards corrected. The Rev. Gentleman, in one part of it, was made to say, with reference to Mr. Cobden, " He has led us into a scrape here "—which ought to have been " He has let us into a secret here." There were one or two other errors which the sense of the passages would effectually correct. Ebt Etberpool A)tanban. 1 dissipation and di' but if we have sti' , ING.kLIN A lig.:4l)lC.K. j liars prod se of the Mario factoiing clitriOts ; in operant) —if we leave within the power o compan giant evil, which oint stock banking to launch upon the world sho: of needy, reckless griping adventurers, ready to rus luxury not their own, we shall show ourselves as mad had bartered his soul, into the .nds of a gibing idiot I or a drunken maniac To the tendencies and past working of the system Ig, a Conservative government, or a wise and prudent government, must at once devote its earnest and energetic attention. That system would prostrate ultimately the loftiest fabric of commercial prosperity, which the wisest statesman could rear. It is, and has been, the fertile source of commercial dis aster; and the community in which it exists will never exhibit any symptom of health and strength,—more to be depended upon as genuine, than the fire which burns in the eye and glows upon the cheek of the vic tim of consumption—until its power to bolster up rot tenness and beggary is at an end, and we return to a sounder and a safer system. The Leaguers, during the present week at least, have gone on at such a rate that we feel the absolute impossibility of keeping pace with them. We, there fore, in our present publication, occupy ourselves with the Manchester contortions of that frenzied body, and will say. a few words upon the sayings and doings of our Liverpool maniacs in our next publication. On Monday evening, then, the body mtt in the New Hall, in Peter-street, Manchester, for the pur pose, amongst other things, of declaring to the world the amount of the gatherings, in aid of the fifty thou sand pounds' subscription. We certainly expected, after the vapouring of Cobden and others, that at least le that sum would have, ere this, been raised; but forty or forty-one thousand pounds appear to have been the utmost. In fact, from the mode adopted at till meeting in question—at which parties were urged to give in their names and addresses, and were told they would be called upon subsequently for the fulfilment of their magnificent promises—we suspect that this amount exists only upon paper; and that the forty thousand pounds is not worth much more than about half the money. No doubt herculean efforts will be made to swell this amount. But we have an idea, which is not to be dissipated from our minds easily, that the boastings of Mr. Richard Cobden are as yet very far from being realised. We are the more strongly convinced of this from an expression which occurs in the speech of a Mr. Taylor —the representative of the Leaguers of the metropolis. The body account for the defalcation in their proposed £50,000 by the assertion that the metropolis has as yet done nothing. Mr. P. A. Taylor, the representative of that great city, stated that London's atmosphere is " thick"—thicker, we suppose, than the very rarified atmosphere of Manchester. The aristocracy, too, spend a very large amount of their plunder—(the Brothertons, Philipses, &c. spend precious little !) in London. But the worst of all was the fact, that the Londoners could not find amongst the agents of the Anti-Corn-law League any body they durst trust with their money ! Before this Mr. Taylor left London, " he had heard of some two to three thousand pounds ready to be contributed"—which had, in fact, " been collected there"—but until the Anti-Corn-law League came bodily to London, there was nobody to whom the recipients would pay it ! The various bottle con jurors in the pay of the League were not deemed responsible ! _ _ Thus far, therefore, we may safely say that the expectations of the League have been most signally disappointed, Fifty thousand pounds of voluntarily contributed money has not been raised. A great por tion of the amount raised during the present week has been raised with about as much reference to the cause which it is designed to serve, as the money raised at any bottle-conjuror's exhibition, at a country fair, is contributed to advance the virtuous purposes of the jack-pudding who exhibits. Silly women, ambitious of displaying a stylish bonnet and feathers; nice young gentlemen, inhabiting cellars and courts ; people vibrating between the police-court and -the court for the relief of insolvent debtors—have done their little all to advance this cal Jse : but to find an influential man (who has not been kicked out of the Town Coun cil) you may search, and you will search, in vain. But let us go a little further. We do not stand upon the little remarks of little people, for we have the sayings (one of them, by-the-bye, will serve our turn for the present) of no less a personage than Dr Bowring, to remark upon, The celebrated Polyglot informs us that men " are said to be smitten dumb with the grandeur of the Falls of Niagara," and that he was struck dumb (or ought to have been) by the sight of the meeting assembled in Manchester. Now we have seen most of the great people of that great town, and as Niagara struck the great Polyglot dumb, and the meeting in Manchester did not, we have an awfully diminished opinion of the majesty of an anti corm-law • assemblage in Manchester. What, water strike dumb the learned Doctor, and brandy and water leave him in possession of his talkative powers ! Why the libel ought to cost him, at the least, his seat as the representative of the trotting people of Bolton ! 'While much misery is confessedly felt in our manu facturing districts, it is of course important to consider where new markets may be safely opened for our manufactures; but it is certainly of equal importance to consider the reasons why some of our old markets are shut against us. We had once a very large trade to Buenos Ayres, which under the barbarous govern ment of Rosas has dwindled down to mere insignifi cance, and for some years past has bean anything but a profitable one : Monte Video, under Rivera's govern ment, has in a few years riien from a very small mar ket for our manufactures, to one of great importance, and she has increased her exports of produce from a few thousand pounds to an average of more than a a half sterling, per annum, for the last three years. million a Our government lady sent an agent to Paragua: which promises an extensive field for our manufactures. Rosas endeavoured to prevent Mr. Gordon from proceeding to Paraguay ; Rivera furnished biro with an escort, under the protection of which he has safely arrived at his destination. Is it possible that our government will calmly look on, and allow Rosas, of Buenos Ayres, to destroy Monte Video ? We hope not ; but perhaps the insertion of the following letter from Mr. Gordon, to the government cf Monte Video, may draw the attention of the public and our govern ment to the subject : " Ytapua, 26th September, 1812 " To His Excellency Sr. Don. F. Rivera. " Having arrived here, without any particular occurrence, on the 20th of the present month, I despatched the same evening the official from your government, transmitting my passports, and requesting that the government of Paraguay would grant to me and to those who accompanied me the necessary license for our continuing our journey to Assump tion. I remitted on the same occasion, to their excellencies the consuls of the republic, the official which your excellency had encharged me with for their excellencies, The answer of their excellencies the consuls reached me last evening, which conceded the permission I asked for myself, my two companions, and my servant, to proceed to the capital, with the assurance of every assistance and protection which we might wish. I am sorry to say the license was not extended to the Oriental escort, under the protection and with the assistance of which I have been so effectually and happily protected during my journey until I enterer ,the Paraguay territory, for the reason (in the words of the note of their excellencies the consuls) that now I required no such escort. With this motive the government of this republic have given the pass port which Don Bias Arebido carries, ordering the authori ties of Paraguay to give to him and the soldiers under his command every necessary assistance for their return to the camp of your excellency, and taking with them this official your excellency, in answer to yours referred to now " It now only remains for me to express to your excellency 7y entire satisfaction of the conduct of the escort, generally idually, for the whole time we have journeyed toge ther. Yo .r excellency will excuse me making such a decla ration, because i Aip well persuaded that soldiers in the con fidence of, and selected your excellency, will ever con duct themselves so; nevertheleAs, my feelings could not be satisfied without making such expressions of deserved grati tude, to manifest to their chief : that t they have so well com pleted the cow.miadon committed to the ofOcer and escort which have accompanZed me from Monte Yideo—that, in every manner and under every ci,Kcumstance, they have al ways been active, obedient, and quick to ae,rform all that was necessary, and to overcome all difficulties—that they have and IL mmercial enterprise of her people. atitications of the treaty shall have been As soon as ged, it will you. her Majesty has succeeded in In concert with be ahl i sh - faith of this country ng:between the time exis difference for ,ments had recen Persian s has acce as eacu --- Great Britain and Russia, her Majesty enter lent hope that their mutual relations will be and amicably adj as Emperor of Russia CIUMUU 11.44 ••••••-' • I navigation, which will be laid be- reat satis- sty regards this treaty w e foundation for increased intercourse betwt s and those of t he Emperor Her Maj her Majesty's suuj— " Her Majesty is happy to inform you that c omplete suc cess has attended the recent military operations in.Affghani- an. " Her Majesty has the greatest satisfaction in recording ler high sense of the ability with which those operations rave been directed, and of the constancy and valour which rave been manifested by the European and Native forces. " The superiority of her Majesty's arms has been estab ished by decisive victories on the scenes of f or mer disassters;who tnd the complete li beration of her Majesty's subject vere held in captivity, and for whom her Majesty felt the 'eepest interest, has been effected. We are commanded by ;z sty to inform you that it has not been deemed ad sable to continue the occupation by a military force of the )nntriea to the westward of the Indus. " Gentlemen of the House of Commons, Her Majesty has directed the estimates for the ensuing year to be laid before you. " Such reductions have been made in; the amount of the naval and military force as have been deemed compatible, ender present circumstances, with the efficient performance of the public service throughout the extended empiretof her Majest illy Lords and Gentlemen, ty regrets; the diminished receipt from some Her IVlajes the ordinary sources of the:revenue. Her Majesty fears that it must be in part attributed to reduced consumption of many articles, caused by that industry of the country )f . the manufacturing ,as so long prevailed, and which her Majesty has so 'eeply lamented. " In considering, however, the present state of the, ler Majesty is assured that you will beargin mind that it has een materially affected by the extensive reductions in the mport Duties, which received yourtsanction during has been the last ess ion of Parliament, and that little progress itherto made in the collection of these taxes which were nposed for the purpose of the supplying the deficiency from that and other causes service Her M tionate attachmer e occasion of " Her Maie bed, and the: s subjects were endangered by tumultuous assemblages of open violence. The ordinary law, promptly was sufficient for the effectual repression of these Her Majesty confidently relies upon its efficacy, the zealous support of her loyal and peaceable r the maintenance of tranquillity. commanded by her Majesty to acquaint you that neasures connected with the improvement of the law, and ;with various questions of domestic policy, will be submitted I acts for your consideration. " Her Majesty confidently relies on your zealous endea vour to promote the public welfare, and fervently prays that the favour of the Divi ne Providence may direct and prosper your counsels, and make them conducive to the happiness f her people." ntentme FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1543 We believe the fact will not he disputed, that the entire trade of the country is, at this moment, in a state of unexampled depression and derangement. It is not our foreign trade alone which is contracted. It is not any particular branch of trade which is suffering. Every department of the national industry and enter prise—the home trade, the foreign trade, and the colo nial trade alike—appears utterly, hopelessly, and, what' is worse, unaccountably paralyzed. Commodities of every description are freely offered at the slightest shade above the cost of their production—in many cases even lower ;—but buyers are not to be found. Ihe price of labour is at, what we would fain hope to be, its minimum. Manufacturing skill, and the adap tation of machinery to manufacturing purposes, have never been so great as at present. The cost of pro duction of every article is reduced to the utmost : and yet our goods are a drug in every market. The world seems to have ceased to consume, or to buy more of our commodities, however cheap we may offer them, than are absolutely necessary for the supply of present and pressing wants How are we to account for this strangely anomalous state of things ? Upon ordinary principle we cannot may be referred to the opera- confident that the future produce of nue will be sufficient to meet every exige acy of the wands us to acquaint you!that her Ma: utmost gratification fro .1 that i the course pf the manufac Ives and propert the loyalty and Jer Majesty which were mani- Majesty's visit to Scotland. of last year of her Ma- BIOGRAPHY The Rev. Francis Wranghanl, M•A F Hummanby, Yorkshire, has in ripe old age R.S ' been gathered of to his fathers, and laid in ChesteraCliattehreadryraml.auH, aefiwnaesseiinlaltahre, most general sense of the word, ed eh to ur t e h h e . of elegant mind and high attaimmteenrtusi English gentleman and the minister From his early youth he contributed meaucicuhailto Protestantstuh suited religious and polite literature of his country. In 1795, nearly fifty years ago, his fi rs t poem appeared , the same time he pub lished "Restor a ti on o f t h e J ew s ; and about a S ea ton prize on the lished the translations in verse, which at once ,. e 9 s s tab,l, i ßaine is shed his name among ou r mos t g raceful bards. In 1i , Fallen" a sermon issued from the pulpit and pen ; and a considerable volume of Discourses , founded on Doddridge , soon followed. A not h er S ea ton prize, "The Holy Land ' was printed in 1800 ; and a third, Sufferings of the P r i m itive Martyrs." a few years after, a e d se " the Between these pe riods other poeti ca l e ff us i ons were produce d , and The Raising of J a i rus ' s D aughter, " w ith a " Memoir ofthelate Caroline S ymmons, " an " Essay on the best Method of Ci vilising the Subjects of our Indian Empire," and Sermons, including an important recommendation for m akin g National S c h oo l s the media for promu l gat i ng the Gospel. t h e A new edition of Langhorne's Plutarch, in six vols. Svo., and the work of the Rev. Thomas Zorich, in two vol among this excellent individual's latter contributions to . public instruction; and his admirable Latin versions of bot, familiar and pathetic poetry, and his happy Macaronis effusions, are well known to the circle of affectionate who enjoyed the happiness of his society or .espondence. I t was our good fortune to be among the latter ; and we pay, with sincere feelings of sorrow, this hasty and imperfect tribute to the memory of one of the most amiable and virtuous men that ever existed. Mr. I'. C. Holland, one of the moat sweet and natural of , ur landscape-painters, has also paid the last great debt he wed to nature. He died a t L eam i ngton, on the 3d instant, the age Of sixty-six. Ptir thirty and more years few tist4 have contributed more to adorn our exhibitions and 'leries than Mr. Holland; and many of his principal works to the highest qualities of art—all of them being of the t pleasing descripti on , f ull of truth, and delightful to look L. Mr. Holland has left a widow, the accomplished or of many a charming volume. Abraham Raimbach, the celebrated engraver, has this week to be added to our sad list of losses. He died suddenly at Greenwich, on the 17th, aged sixty-seven. Some of the best engravings of our time are from his burin. Mr. Bellamy, the bass' singer, whose pure style was so effective in sacred music, has also been taken from us ; and Mr. Vaughan, the tenor, is among the dead. Captain Hamilton, the gifted author of" Cyril Thornton " Rev and i ew of recently " Travels in America," is stated in th e Edinburgh to have died in Italy- .nmes, were 'That's part of the sinking fund," as a chap said when a box of Mexican dollars went to the bottom of theriv week, as Mr er ßrier. THE RULING PASSION. —On Monday Brier , j un ., was conveying William Riley, (one of the prisoners s -1 o mitted as above,) from the Court-house to the House r of I oection, Wakefield, the prisoner called at the shop of a ,e in named Arnold, to purchase some bread and cheese, and whilst the shopkeeper I. `rich he te ndered a shilling, s , king for change, he slyly stole a threepenny pie ! ,N tsit MActuNErtir.—We understand that an amusing , n of French boasting occurred some time since in the 'ls A. French steamer (the Gomer) having arrived at . h e r engines and fittin g s-up were immediately ec pomp, by the cap tain and officers, and those of the Br itish steamer (the Sala tlL 14 a Some English gentlemen, how l. invited to inspt, -t. them, they found th e name of " William Few( 't and Co., of Liverpool," -:-nen of French su 17with great ority ovc ed spec uch vau told of a Yankee enrm :—" When- .e by the captain's orders, 1 of it, and that end placed himself, passed rt of it he mat dfor sow. ,•.•._, the•wd which had no plums air' no sooner saw the pudding --‘1 of it. Picking 3rely exarnh)- hand )st me two shillings in withQUt d,f%Slgr, something ,vas a plum-p.udding ma perior and his mat, game had been player upon the steward to plat 3 the captain. The captl e discovered that he had —A stor after and turning it in z ;' and The captain laughed mate—the mat he pudding tributed hei aughed gthwise this tim .fairly dis e dish with tbeplumend in tt perfect r a t ) i s n e n i f o • innocence, • looked at thecaptain. 4 Pll tell y wh,!: we'll he Plum hinery. CAPTAIN wrong account for it tion of the corn-laws. It is these laws, we may be told, which limit the foreign demand for our goods. But the fact stares us in the face, that, in the most pros )reign trade, we had a corn-law perous state of ou infinitely more c ,bjeetionable in the eyes of the most ardent free trader than the present Surely, not the want of a free trade in corn which paral the home trade. Our manufact wring population is now fully employed. The price of corn is now nearly as low as in the three or four years of prosperity which preceded 1837. The high price of food does not there- fore now sweep away all the earnings of the artisan, anti annihilate his powers of consumption. We have not now the markets of China closed against our com- On the contrary, we have just derived, in that merce portion of the globe, an accession of four new markets —an accession which, five or six years ago, would have elevated the spirits of our commercial men to almost fever height. We have no blockades now shutting out our enterprize from any foreign market—no wars of intervention in progress. And yet our prospects are gloomier every day; the tone of commercial opinion more despondent; bankruptcy and insolvency more rife, and the issue from our difficulties and suffering apparently more difficult and impervious, even to the most sanguine It cannot have escaped the most unobservant eye that mingled with, if not at the root of, this this strange state of thin transactions betwee is an utter want of confidence in the n trader and trader. Every man is doubtful of his neighbour. Every man feels—and ho many know —that we have not yet arrived at tf climax of our commercial embarrassments. The clouds which have hung over us, have lowered and drooped until they almost enclose us with their darkness ; but, they must as in the natural world experience tells u burst and discharge themselves in rain, before again breathe bright and healthy atmosphere. that that brighter day for the corn ce and industry of the country is at hand ; but we Every thing assures us dare not put on the garments and the smiles befitting t until the overhanging tempest has passed over our leads. 'We are no alarmists. We have no wish to depress the rising spirits—did any such exist—of the commercial community around us. But the truth will and must be told. A strong eling of insecurity does ing around them are, too many of them, not.the sub stantial fabrics which they seem. Can they do other wise when they reflect calmly upon the exposures of commercial trickery and unsoundness which have, during the past few months, enlivened the proeeedings of our Courts of Bankruptcy, and startled and amazed the prudent and honest among the trading world ? The Bank of Manchester exposure; the light recently thrown upon the system of business carried on by the cutting tradesmen in our large towns; the recklessness with which credit has been shown to have been given to mere adventurers ; the factitious means by which appearances have been shown to have been kept up to the very hour before the explosion occurred these things have failed to stagger commercial men and induce to the conviction that, still, all is not healthy and safe which seems so to the outward eye ? Nay, we may add, are not the frenzied and passionate attempts which are making by a certain section amongst ommunity ; the contributions of hundreds of pounds to advance a political measure by men never suspected of inordinate charity and liberality ; the loud professions of losing trades carried on, and pushed, though losing, to the utmost extent of the means or the credit of those who make them; the vast masses of goods poured upon our markets, avowedly —can for sacrifice, avowedly because to cease to produc Are not all the vould be to step over a precip:c symptoms, we ask, amp confidence, w Lout which a re t to cause and pro- ly healthy traac cannot can conceive no men the power of a ministry to devise, which Assuredly they are so; at sure, within a nd permanently, benefit the .community, without first probing to the root and pruning with a determined hand, the system itself which has led to the extensive disorganization which now exists in the commercial world. We may destroy our native agri culture, ruin our colonies, pauperize our industrious labourcrs,at home, goad them by workhouse tests, or tempt them h :uttering promises, to embrace the alternative of emigration ; or W rush into the revelry can, really given every nem with me, and to tho') , e at whos I cannot end w Antonio, both severely wounded in the my governmer ?resenting to your excellen thott calling the attention of your excellency f the soldier Jose Arillco, and of the coaelnna rvice which they t I cannot do more tl: nd them to the consideration of you: excellency igh esteem acid •ou with t he honour to subscribe myself, &c., cued) " J. R. G. GORDON." The following extract from a private letter dated " Monte Video, 26th October, 1842," to a respectable house in this town, of an additional reason for the interference of government, and proves strongly the blind and wicked obstinacy of Rosas " I wrote you to-day, telling you that this government had received a dispatch from Mr. Mandeville yesterday, to the effect that all his endeavours to persuade Rosas to aban don his intention of invading this country had proved inef fectual, and that it was his determination to carry out the war to the utmost extremity ; and the reason he gives for doing so is, that Rivera is a man of no faith or principle; but his crowning crime, in Rosas' manifesto, is his having encouraged foreign immigration to the extent he has done, contrary to the will of the country. This declaration of Rosas we consider of great importance, and should open the eyes of the British government to the policy of Rosas. That such were his feelings has been plain to us here for many years, but we have thought the monster would hardly hsve had the boldness to avow them in so open a manner." We have really been in the habit of supposing that our contemporary of the Liverpool Albion was an ar dent corn-law repealer. We cry him mercy. The Albion, lovingly as he has hunted with the league pack for monthswast, is not disposed to go with them all the length to the death. Our contemporary, in fact, is a supporter of a fixed duty, and would doubtless ad vocate something like the Bs. duty proposed by Lord John Russell. It is refreshing to think that we have at least one moderate opponent of the present law amongst the Radical prese of our town. We are afraid, neverthe less, that the philosopher who penned the following— quoted, by way of joke, we suppose, by the London Times—is not likely to advance materially the progress of the cause which he espouses. We give the passage, as it appears in the columns of our London contempo- " FIXED DUTY ON CORN.—This duty is paid by the fo reign merchant. If he consigns it to his agent in London or Liverpool—and it should be sold here at the market price, no matter what that may be, but suppose it to be GOs. per quarter—does not the agent in his account of sales, charge for freight, insurance, landing charges, and commission, which, suppose_ amount to Ss., he must also charge Ss. duty ; the net proceeds consequently are 445. Then is it not the foreigner that pays the duty, and not the consumer? This would at once set aside the speculative sliding scale, and save many from ruin. It would also bring in a great revenue, and render the obnoxious income tax unnecessary." Most conclusive reasoner ! Profound interpreter of all the politico-economical philosophers ! The world has always been taught to believe that duties upon im• ported articles are paid ultimately by the consumer. But the world has been wrong. The foreign importer pays the duty ; and free trade, and reduced rates, as intended for a relief to the consuming classes, are farcical and suicidal, inasmuch as they only relieve the pocket of the foreign producer ! Seriously, we are inclined to doubt the authenticity of this paragraph; and we have not leisure, at present, to refer to our contemporary's own columns. Nothing so puerile and silly could emanate from a journal, of the high character for shrewdness and sense poSsessed by the Albion. There was once a Dutch skipper who insulted one of the voyageurs in his treckshuyt ; and op arriving at the place of destination, the traveller immediately went to a magistrate for redress. To his astonishment, Mynheer, the captain, was himself the burgomeister to whom he was introduced, He appealed to the police, but Mynheer was head of the police. In desperation he went to a higher court ; but lo ! the captain sat as judge! Mynheer met him at every turn, and the poor passenger was obliged to put up with his loss. Mr. Lawrence Heyw•orth, of this town, is the Dutch skip per. Go where you will, you find this busy, and, in his own estimation, most important personage. lie is a man apparently with only two ideas. He thinks that without a repeal of the corn•laws the country will be ruined ; and without universal water-drinking, the same calamitous results must ensue. In Clayton square he advocates the repeal of the corn duty; but he is generally silent in reference to temperance; but whether he itinerates in the manufacturing districts, or spouts at Palace -yard ; whether he figures at the parish vestry, or speechifies at a railway meeting, the repeal of the corn Jaws is the only burthen of his melancholy warble. His last exhibition was at the meeting of the Grand Junction Railway proprietors, at the Cotton Sales-room, on Tuesday; and as at the grand free trade banquet, on the same night, there would perhaps be some difficulty in his being able to twinkle amidst such a constellation of brilliant stars as that with which the league had begemmed the hemisphere of Liver pool, Mr. Heyworth had wisely determined to fire off his anti-corn-law harangue before grace was said, lest it might he smothered in the galaxy which was to make such a brilliant evening. The report of the directors of the Grand Junction Railway lamented the falling off of the traffic on the line, but anticipated a great increase by the better prospects which dawn upon the country ; when up rose Mr. Heyworth, with visage darkened, the weight of England's commerce being on his shoul ders, and, extending his hand like another Demosthenes, lamented the hard fate of his country. He cordially agreed in all that had been said as to the depression of trade, and was sensible of the effect produced on the shareholders; and after stating that he had nothing, no, nothing! political in his mind, he maintained his gravity so far as to propose that the proprietors of the railway should present a petition to Parliament to im prove the traffic on the line by the repeal of the corn laws ! Reader, did you ever see an audience when Liston was performing? If you have, you can form some idea of the appearance of the meeting when this proposition was gravely announced. Shouts of derisive laughter caused the orator to resume his seat without finishing his speech ; and, at last, the business of the meeting proceeded. So long as he confines himself to such harmless absurdities 45 that of telling the inhabitants of Vaux hall-road that every one of them is 4ctually worth £l6OO, and proving it, on the score of ; eater -drinking, to his own satisfaction, if not to theirs, —we may laugh at such noriaense ; but when Mr, Lawrence Heyworth, a member of the Anti-Corn -law League, and one of its professed itinerant orators, ventures to throw the apple of political discord into 4 railroad meeting, it ought to be scouted by every man of cor rect feeling as mischievous and improper. There is a time and a pla ce f or all things ; and t he interlude of Tuesday is a c onv i nc ing proof that on the Exchan g e of Liverpool, amongst merchants of sense and stand ing, the Anti-Corn-law agitation is valued as it ought to be—as a tissue of selfishness and charlatanism. distinguished cot " I have t ion to me, to those who were e houses we stayed by the way LOCAL. NEWS Marseilles is INDIAN M AIL .—/th e .41cort,a,re of the mail to India viii Pos t pone d until l'eloaay , the . 9th inst. John Dixon, Esq ., o f Astle, ivppointed sheriff of Cheshire for the present y ear. We understand that the trials of Feargus O'Connor and the other Chartists, upon the indictments against them, which were removed by certiorari from the late Special Commission, will be tried at Lancaster, and not at Liver pool. Hence it has been thought right to assign a longer period for the assizes at Lancaster than would otherwise have been necessary. • . ~ SCHOONER SUNK. —Yesterday morning, as we learn from the telegraph intelligence, a schooner went down on West Hoyle Bank. Ti ke exe w were compelled to remain in the rigging the whole day, as the lifeboats could not approach them owing to the very heavy sail 'which was raging. At 5 ie p.m. the Poi n t o f A yr lif e boat was at anchor about one mile north-east of th e sc h o oner, and we hope to hear this morning that th e poor f e ll ow s have been rescued. The wind has been eiaren ly b o i s terous for the last few days in this quarter, thou g h we hAtvp no t had much rain, and the atmo : . . sphere, until yesterday, 4 4 4 pat the usual coldness of the season. NELSONIAN —This w.ork, WC have already mentioned as being written by Lieutenant Parsons, is extremely interesting, and in many respects important. The author depicts with eloquence and vividness a number of scenes with w hi c h ou r readers are, in all probability , in some points familiar, and many others which are here first detailed in point. The work has been printed in Boston, and tly.ugh in some respects, probably the author's gallantry and sense of gratitude lead him to pass eulogiums which some persons may think rather out of plac e, s t i l l t he pages are highly /Instructive and entertaini n g . We have not had an opportunity a reading the whole work , b ut w e s hall, perhaps. at sonie.futu - ie time give one or two specimens of the writer's style. ' • t.IVEir TritAq itz.:-4everat novelties ai e ill course of re presentation. "The Bride of Itunmermoor" i 5 the leading feature, adopted from Sir W- Scott's tale of that rime. Lemon Rede's pow tp.-, ant! erfully written d Thirty Years of a Gambler's Life ram, has beeu revive singing make up the amusements BULBS AND FOREIGN ROOTS.—Mr. Ledet and his taro 14-r, of the firm of Ledet and Co., Paris, have been resident here a short time with a choice stock of bulbs, seeds, flower roots, and shrubs, and are now on the eve of departure : they are desirous of disposing of their remaining stock, which will elsewhere be found advertised. From the report of several gentlemen who have dealt with them we are led to believe that implicit confidence may be put on their statements as to the excellence of their various horticultural specimens. It will be seen that the elder of the brothers has been taken ill, and, in consequence, they are especially desirous of disposing of their valuable stock. THE FUNDS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—CODBOIS have shown a firm appearance to-day, though the highest point attained was not supported up to the close of business. There were no extensive operations, but general business was active. Consols for money and the account closed 9-1 i to 95, after having been 95 buyers. Three per Cents. Reduced closed 93a •, Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 102 to ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 101 i to +; Long An- nuities, 124 ; Exchequer-bills, 625. to 645. premium ; Bank Stock, 1724 to 4734 ; and India Stock, 262 to 264. In the Spanish market there was also a better feeling, and quota tions left off firmly, with a steady business. Spanish Aetives were finally quoted 184 to 194 ; ditto New, 24 to 4; Portu guese converted, 364 to *; Mexican, 314 to 324 ; ditto De ferred, 84 to 94; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 524 to ; Danish, 85 to 86 ; Colombian, 23a ; Brazilian, 741 to 751 ; and Belgian, 103 to 104. COMMITMENTS YESTERDAY AT THE POLICE-COURT.— An elderly female, named Elizabeth Lovelady, was charged by Mrs. Mary Ann Arthington with robbing her of a quantity of wearing apparel. The prisoner, who was poor, had gone to the house as a lodger for the night, but remained some days, and finally decamped with the articles—worth 30s. She had been twice committed before, and was sent for trial. —Richard Williams, a youth, also for stealing wearing ap parel from a Mr. Beattie, with whom be lodged, and which he afterwards pledged at different places, was committed for trial.—Edward Barnes, a boy, who had been emyloyed by his mistress to pay a coal bill to Messrs. Bevan and Smith, who gave him the money—upwards of £3, and the bill to get a receipt, was charged with having kept the money, and put a receipt to the bill, with the signature of John Jones — there being no such person in the coal-office. On being ap prehended he said he had spent the money. He was com mitted for trial. BLOWN MEAT.—On ti ednesday, Mr. Sillitoe, butcher, who has a stand in St. James's Market, appeared before Mr. Rushton, to answer a charge prefered against him by the superintendent of the establishment. Mr. Luya stated that he found on the stand of the defendant, and offered for sale, a calf's head ( produced ), which had been subjected to the pro cess of blowing. The defendant said that it had been brought in that state from the slaughter-house, and he did not himself know that it was exposed. Mr. Rushton adjudged the meat to be forfeited, and cautioned the defendant that if a similar complaint were again substantiated against him, he would certainly impose the fine. It is somewhat remarkable, as showing one of the omissions in our bye-laws, that though blown meat is liable to seizure, in our market, and the party exposing it to fine, it is exempt from all interference if ex posed in shops ! The practice is, to say the least, a very filthy one. The meat is inflated at the slaughter-house, by the offensive breaths of the dirty fellows there employed, to give it a more plump appearance ; and, when so blown it will not, we are informed, keep so long by a day-and-a-half to two days. POCKET-PICKING.—At the Police-court, on Wednesday, a young man named Thomas Huson, was charged by an elderly gentleman with attempting to rob him of his watch on the stairs of the Amphitheatre, during the progress of the Free-trade Banquet. ' The complainant stated, that while on the stairs the crowd was considerable, and the prisoner who was close to him, made a snatch at his watch, endeavouring to possess himself of it by the guard. He did not, however, succeed, and was struck at and given into custody by the complainant, who had no doubt of his identity. It appeared that the prisoner had before been once committed for a similar offence, and once discharged, Mr. Rushton com mitted him to gaol for three months.—Another of the light fingered gentry, named Owen Connolly, was proved guilty of picking the pocket of a gentleman named Clare, of his hand kerchief in St. James's-market. He was caught hold of by the complainant immediately after he had handed it over to another boy, and ran off. The prisoner when seized stoutly denied that he was the aggressor, and endeavoured to per suade his detainer to release him and pursue the other, who was observed to be his confidant, but the gentleman wisely considering that " a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," said " No, I'll stick to you ;" and did so until a police-officer came up. He was committed to gaol for two months. EXTENSIVE SMUGGLING OF Tosacco.—A man named Patrick Keats (alias Shean), was, on Wednesday, brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of smuggling a quantity of tobacco. Mr. Brooks, solicitor for the customs, conducted the case against him, and called several witnesses. It ap peared that the prisoner had, last week, come from New York by the new packet-ship Ashburton. On Tuesday he got two boxes out of the steerage, which he had brought with him, and the mate directed him to have them taken to the depot of the Waterloo Dock to have them passed, which he did, by means of porters. He there gave the key of one of them, which was locked, to one of the customs' officers, who, in presence of another, opened it, and afterwards the _ other box, which was corded, when they was both found to be double in the sides, bottom, and ends, and, on being broken up, a quantity of foreign manufactured tobacco was found secreted in the chamber all round—the whole weigh ing 182 lbs. The prisoner stated at the time that he was a poor man, and had invested all he had in the world in the article. It appeared from the sample produced to be Cavendish," in small square wedges, After being cautioned as to what he might say, the prisoner merely said that he was a poor man, and had a wife and six children to support,—, Mr. Rushton said he must he remanded, in order that the opinion of the Custom-house Commissioners; in London, conk be obtained as to the proceedings to be taken against him. INFRACTIONS OF THE EXCISE LAWS.—At the Police court yesterday, several parties, keepers of public-houses, were proceeded against by excise informations, for selling spirits and beer without having paid for the requisite licenses: Two of them were fined £l2. 10s., or (in mitigation) one fourth of the penalty incurrable on one of the informations only; and as it appeared that there was no intention to de fraud, and that the defalcation in paying up arose from want ce . means, and had since been made up, Mr. Rushton, with the concurrence of the collector, said that he would recom mend their cases to the favourable consideration of the board for a further initigation.—A man named Harrison, his wife, and a girl, her daughter, named Ellis, residing in Gentry pourt, Norfolk-street, were proceeded against for haying illicit spirits in the house in which they lived. The place having been suspected fpr some time, several excise officers went to it at an early hour of the morning some time ago. After knocking some time, and obtaining admittance, found in the cellar, a tub containing a Heald, ten per cent. of which was spirits ; also a bottle floating in it containing a liquid, of which fifty pee cent. was spirits at proof. From the evi dence it appeared that the husband was not at all implicated. The evidence against the girl was imperfect. The old woman, however, was known, an the case being made out against her, she was fined £so—being one-half of the full penalty. She will of course be imprisoned during the pleasure of the Board of Excise.—These instances ought to operate as a caution to parties against infractions of the excise laws, which are properly strict in justice to the fair dealer. FIRE AT MUCH WOOLTON.—On Monday night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a fire was discovered to have broken out in a beer-house at Much Woolton, belonging to Mr. Moss, brewer, near Halewood, and situated in the mid dle of a number of cottage buildings pn the west side of the pond at the brow end of the village. The house itself was four stories in height—the lower floor occupied as a tavern, and the upper floor (being uninhabited) were used as hay and straw lofts, and contained a considerable quantity of these materials. So soon as the fire became threatening, a man was despatched to this town on horseback, and reached the fire-police station about half-past twelve o'clock. Mr. Hewitt, and a body of the police, immediately got out two engines, with powerful horses, and hastened to the scene with all possible speed—a distance of about six miles. On their arrival at the spot, the roof of the burning premises'had fallen in, - and they were nearly destroyed interiorly. Th e adjacent property, chiefly newly-built houses, close together, were, however, in imminent danger. The engines were im mediately set to work, and there being abundance of water readily procurable from the pond, the flames were confined to the Wilding in which they originated ; theefi i re t thmeeny, assisted by stout yeomen of the village , making what termed " a good job" of the fire. Two of the cottages on each side alone sustained slight damage in their roofs by the ftlliag upon them pf portion; of the wall of the tall burning house. In about two hours, the flames being so far subdued as to remove all further danger, the police mounted on the engines, and returned merrily to the town, and arrived at the fire station at a quarter-past five o'clock. It is not known how the fire originated. The premises were, we un derstand, insured. THE ACHILL MISSION.--REV. E. NANOLE, AND MR. S. C. meeting of the friends and supporters of this valuable and interesting cause, in this town, is announced for Monday evening next, in the Music-hall ; the Rev. El. M‘Neile in.the chair. The object in particular which Mr. Nangle has in view, at this time, is to vindicate himself, and the cause to which he has been for so many years devoted, from the flippant and most unfounded imputations cast upon them by Mr. S. C. Hall, in the recent number of his work on Ireland. This has been already triumphantly accom plished by Mr. Nangle, in the December number of the .Achill Herald; but to make the refutation, if possible, co extensive with the calumny, lie has taken the trouble of hold ing meetings, in the chief towns in England, the result of which has been, in most cases, as in Cheltenham for instance, a considerable accession of pslin sppport of the mission. The schools of the mission have been signalled out by Mr. Hall for especial censure, whilst it is well known that seve ral competent tourists, who took both time and pain..s to ex amine the proficiency of the children under Mr. Mangle's care, have, on all occasions, expressed themselves satisfied. Even to surprise at the success vouchsafed to this part of Mr. Nan gte's labours, we ourselves have been informed by a clergy man, who, together with several other brethren, was in com pany with the Rev. Charles Bridges, soon after his return from the Island of Achill, that this truly honourable and pious man (and he is a witness, at least equally competent with Mr. S. C. Hall) pronounced these.schools to be the best conducted, and most successful, he had ever examined. We anticipate much good to the cause of truth at Achill from this wanton attack. The Protestants of Liverpool are ever ready to assist in every good cause; and are fruitful in every good work. That the Achill mission is preminently so, is proved even by the untiring and ingenious malignity by which it is assaulted and aspersed by the abettors of Popery, of every grade and description. THEATRE-ROYAL.—It is now some yeare since The Ton i pest was produced here, it must therefore now come with a freshnesS and novelty to the playgoing public. It has been got up well—exereiwily Well; and, what with new scenery, dresses, and attention to stage effect, we ray say that The Tempest is well worth seeing. Mr. Stuart'S PWSpero ichighly ju dicious performance. His knowledge of his power over the elements, his mastery over Caliban, his control over Ariel were well marked out, and the lofty tone and habit of one used to " threaten and command" was kept up without o'er stepping the modesty of nature." Prospero does not give muchopportunity to the actor to display the " fineness" of his art. Mr. Stuart lost no ground in his well-merited reputation. Mrs. Seymour's Miranda was a very graceful performance. We defy the utmost perfection of acting to make much of it : all that could be done, Mrs. Seymour effected.—Miss Gard ner, es .4trid, looked like a sylph, and floated about with all possibld'ease and srace. She sang the songs extremely well, especially that beautiful one, " Wbei-e the hee sucks." The scene with Prospero, he reminds .4riel of the obliga tions due to him, was very well' acted.' The'performancd'ot Ariel reflects much credit upon Miss Gardner, who apptars to understand well the spirit of the original.-'M r. Rayrier'S Caliban was admirable.; as were also Mr. Hammond's Trin. clap and Mr. Adclison'a Stephano. The drunken scene was capitally played, and drew forth shouts Of laughter.—Mr. Nantz, as Ferdinand; Mr. Barton, as Sebastian: Cooke, as Alo nzo; and Mr.' King, as Antonip, greatly ex erted themselves. —The scenery is all new, and beautiftillY painted : one scene is especially worth namlng—the interior of the island. The storm scene, with the destractitm of the vessel, is well managed. " The Tempest" has been ge4 up with very great care, and will doubtless prove attractive. The pantomine continues popular : it is to be withdrawn this week for other novelties, which are in preparation.—The house has been well attended. EXCHANGE: DINING ItOom's.=-Mt. Harris fia'S addeA two tiibre rooms to his already extensive and commodious es tablishment, finding that he had not sufficient accommoda tions for his increasing customers. The excellence of the viands, the promptitude of supply, and the civility of all per sons in his employ, render him well worthy of notice and patronage. The cleanliness of the rooms is prais and Mr. Harris has n 'orthy, 4 , a suite of apartments, certainly not Their contiguity to the Exchange surpassed in Liverpool is also a great advantagc TEMPERANCE AND GENERAL MARINE INSURANCI COMPANY.—Various shipowners in different parts of the country are combining in a plan to discourage the disuse of ardent spirits on board their vessels, and to promote an In surance Company which proposes to allow a per centage on all vessels insured with them, the Captains of which on their safe return making a certificate that no spirits had been used by the crew, going out or coming home. And also to give valuable prizes to all Captains who, for a certain number of years, have made safe voyages under the temperance princi ple. In America the principle is almost universally adopted, and it appears from the Parliamentary Report on shipwrecks of the year, 1836, with vast success, so as to give American vessels the preference over our own. The Barings have adopted it in ships in China, and it is becoming very preva lent in Liverpool, where the examples of Messrs. Cropper and Co., Messrs. Taylor and Co., &c., have had a great effect. The Temperance and General Marine Insurance Company is on the eve of starting upon those principles. REPEAL OF THE ; UsroN.—The Queen's Theatre, last night, was crowded by a very miscellaneous auditory, for the pqrpose of hearing Mr. Daniel O'Connell addresS the Repeal Association on the blessings which would issue from a separation between . Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. Richard Day was called to the chair; and speeches having been made by Dr. M'Carson, the Rev. P. Wilcock, Mr. Guffin, and Mr. M`Donnell, the " Liberator" rose and de livered a speech an hour and a half long. In itself the oration was dullness itself, compared with some former efforts ; but it presented the accustomed diversity of a heap of coarse abuse upon the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, the Con servative Town-council, and the two representatives of Li verpool. " The Town-council, and a chap named Hugh M'Neile, were the instigators of the mischief which led to some portion of the Irish oppression. (Hisses.)" I see," said the great Daniel, " his name is music in your ears. He has insulted me since I came to Liverpool. (Hear.) I read it in the newspaper (the Liverpool Standard) that he called me a countryman of his. I would not say anything harsh to him though he has insulted me ; but I mus t sa y, he lies, the blackguard. (Cheers.) He is no countryman of mine; he is no' countryman of any body ; he was born no where. (Hear, hear.) He is countryless and creedless. Some of the foulest language ever uttered by a drunken blackguard followed these expressions, but we will not pollute our pages by repeating it. He concluded with one of his accustomed quotations; and his disappearance was a signal for the meeting to disperse. STREET ROBBERY' AND VIOLENT ASSAULT.—On Tues day, .a man, named Alexander M`Puhae, was placed at the bar of the Police-court, on a charge of being concerned in robbing a gentleman in the street. Mr. Robert Neilson, a clockmaker, residing in Lambert-street, said, that, about a quarter past twelve o'clock that morning, lie was .passing along Stafford-street on his way home, when he was accosted by a female, who walked with him into Finch-street. He had a purse containing a sovereign and a foreign silver coin, in one of his pocktts. The woman stood near him, and he saw his purse, which she had contrived to abstract in her hand. She ran off towards the prisoner, who was standing a short distance off, and handed to him the purse, which he pocketed. He seized him, and a scuffle ensued, in which the prisoner threw him down, and ran towards Islington. .Com plainant pursued him, and caught him in Stafford-street. He there broke away, but was caught by a man. When near the corner of Stafford-street, complainant saw the prisoner hand something to another man, who ran off towards Isling ton, and escaped. Christopher Seed said he heard a cry of help, and on going up found Mr. Neilson and the prisoner struggling together near the monument in London-road. Mr. Neilson said he had been robbed and abused. He assisted. to secure the prisoner, who was handed over to police officer Morris. The prisoner was committed for trial at the sessions. It having appeared that while the complainant was struggling with the prisoner, a number of car-men came up to endeavour to rescue the prisoner, and struck and kicked the complainant very severely, particularly on the knee and uncle, on which they inflicted severe contusions. Search was made on Tues day for some of these delinquents, and on Wednesday one of them was brought before Mr. Rushton, and it being proved that he had taken part in the attempted rescue an& assault, he was ordered to pay £5, or be imprisoned for two months. CURIOUS ADDRESSES The following curious addresses passed through the Liver pool Post-office this week : FOR LIVERPOOL. Good Postman, when these lines you see, Laugh not at them, nor laugh at me, But hasten off to Renshaw-street, Nor stop if e'en your wife you meet. At 7 you'll find my friend, Who'll read, this letter to its end— You've taken some, I think, before, Addressed to Mr. B. S—mour. FOR LONDON Come Postman, pray haste and deliver this letter, Well observe the address of my note, J. H. T---r, a surgeon, (in London none better,) (Be quick, 'tis some time since I wrote)- 3 is the number, and BERNERS the STREET, Out of OXFORD-STREET to it you go ; On the right of the door, a bell you will meet; On the brass plate, the name you will know. CORRESPONDENCE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—A friend of mine, who was at Manchester on Tues day, bought a supplement to the Manchester Times, which had been announced to contain all the proceedings of the Anti-corn-law League, and a picture of the great Pavilion which that seditious body have built in Peter-street. When this supplement appeared, he found a most meagre report of the proceedings, and instead of the promised picture, a large open space in the centre of the page, on which it was announced, that in consequence of an accident the picture could not be printed, as promised. My friend, who certainly had no great expectations, put up with the disappointment, and brought the supplement home. In the Liverpool Times of the same Tuesday morning there was a grand parade made of what would be done in a supplement—that it would contain all the League's proceed ings at Manchester the previous day, and a* picture of the great Pavilion in Peter,street. Like my friend, I had formed n o great expectations, and therefore, like him, I met with no disappointment. But, Sir, on comparing my friend's. copy of the supple. ment to the Manchester Times and my own copy of the supplement to the Liverpool Times, I found a most singular coincidence, which, not being a practical man, I cannot account for satisfactorily. The speeches were just the same in both ; the advertisements, more singular still, were exactly the same; and, most wonderful of all, both pictures had met with the very same accident, to prevent the world from gazing on them ! Now, Sir, as I scorn to suspect these eminent Liberals of a conspiracy to humbug both ends of the railway at the same time, I submit these accidental coincidences to your con sideration as worthy of perpetual recoyd.—,Your friend, OH DEAR ME ! Old Po4d, Vednesday, FATAL ACCIDENT BY MACHINERY.—On Monday even ing last, the following distressing accident occurred at the Flock-manufaltory, recently establi s h e d b y M r. James, at the Old Victifalling-office, Plymouth, The clothes of a young woman, named Eleanor H oughton, who was employed in the manufactory, having become entangled in part of the machinery which revolves with great rapidity, her body was immediately drawn in, and repeatedly carried round before she could possibly he extricated. The moment the perilous situation of the unfortunate sufferer was discovered, the most prompt assistance was afforded by those on the spot; but the injuries received were such, in the opinion o f t h e m edical gentlemen, who were quickly in attendance, as to have caused almost instantaneous death. An inquest was held on the following day, and a verdict returned of " Accidental death," with a decidand of one shilling on the machinery.— Plymouth Times: THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE MAILS. —The town council of Manchester held a special meeting on Wednesday last, in order to take steps for obtaininc, an alteratio n i n t h e transmission of the mails between 'that town, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, and Hull. After a good deal of dis cussion, in which the inconvenience, delay, and, in 'too many cases, loss, sustained under the present system were warmly dwelt upon, Mr, Taylor proposed that the council should memorialize Sir R. Peel, as the head of the Government, who was well known as a man of business, and who, he thought, from his information and connexions, must be aware of the accommodation that an important business re quired, and of the necessity, in these days of railroads, that no time should be lost in the transmission of important commercial intelligence, from the ports to the manufacturing districts. A. long memorial to Sir Robert Peel was accor dingly agreed upon, the prayer of which was as follows ; Your memorialists therefore pray, that you will be pleased to direct that a :post-office surveyor be despatched to this town, that he may carefully and deliberately investigate this subject, and ascertain the various serious inconvenien ces now suffered; and in concert with persons to be desig nated by this council, that he may report on the extra expenses which two mails per day to and from Hull would impose on the Post-office ; so th a t hi s i n f ormation may enable Her Majesty's Government to afford such relief in the premises as the wants of the commercial communities of Manchester and Hull imperatiiely require, and the mer cantile importance of the two Towns, and the districts con nected with them, may justly claim; A.nd'your memorialists will ever pray, ROBBERY ol" 4 FottptiNEß.--A daring and impudent robbery was committed on Thur'sday morning, on the pre mises of Mr. Law, the landlord of the Blue Last public-house and chop-shop, St. Martin's -court, Ludgate•hill, by a foreigner. From the statement of Mr. Law, it appears that the party called upon him on Monday, and took a room, as be pretended, for a short time, having great and important busi ness to transact in London. which promised to be very lucra tive. He accordingly was accommodated by the worthy host. On Monday evening there was a supper held at the house, and the foreigner being very talkative, the bons vivants asked him to partake with them of the joviality of the evening. On Tuesday evening he was up in the billiard-room, and entered freely into conversation, although speaking broken English. At twelve o'clock he came down stairs, and the door was shortly afterwards closed in the usual way; by being bolted° He was noticed to take a general survey of the bar and side_ room, in which the landlord sits, but nothing was thought of that, he being a foreigner, and he went upstairs to his room, and they all retired to bed about half-past twelve o'clock. Between two and three o'clock on Wednesday morning h'e must have gone, down stairs, as something was heard moving by the waiter, but he paid no attention, thinkini , it might be Mr. Law. At three o'clock a foreigner addressed the police man on duty in the Broad-way, with a Taglioni great-coat on, and asked'him the way to the Boulogne steam.packet, He directed him to London-bridge; and he walked away quickly. On going back his round, he found 'the debr 'of tlie Bine Last ajar, and he instantly gave the alarm to the inmates. ' On Mr. Law coming down stairs, he discovered that the till had been cleared of fourteen sovereigns, besides a quantity of silver; also several parcels of cheroots, his Taglioni coat, a ring, and various articles had vanished. Information was immediately given at the station, in Black Horse -court, and the policeman went in all haste to London-bridge, where he was informed that a foreigner, answering the d escr i pt i on of the party'-=-tall, sliiii, and dark, without whiskers or musta chios—had gone off by the four o'clock . Ostend steamer. lie immediately proceeded to Blackwall, and tried to get a hint to take him on board the' steamer, which was 'at that moment coming doWn the , river, but there wag not a single waterman to be fOUnd, so that ClY:Valler CrindYffrie got off with impunity. Mr. Law 1106 not Tro* naute.' Rob • beries by foreigners are' Vow becoming very gedetal in the metropolis. On Monday Week a German or FieUctiman, who had been residing at a coffee-hodse, in Patinon-street, city, for six weeks; under pretence thafhe'expected to receive a stun of money daily from the government, 'suddenly de camped, taking with him a great coat, two new pair of 'bo o t s, a sOerei gn i n - go ld, five sh il l i ngs in .silver, and var ie n ticleB of pl a t e , not o i l " *Ft heard of. There are at present in London a gang of foreign swindlers, both French and German, who are living entirely by larpe appearance; and gambling transactions. TOWN COUNCIL , PROCEEDINGS do Wecitietidaii a meeting of the Tc council was herd, in the..Conneil Chamber, within the Town .11, as the tveiniti quarterly meeting of the council, for such of the matters $ were pecu iar to a quarter y count and as a =lit y coutic for the rest of the matters named in the paper The Mayor presided. FINANCE COMMITTEE The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK read the proceedings of the Finance Committee. They comprised the appointment ot, Thomas Boothby, as inspector of hackney coaches and col lector of fines, the consideration of which was postponed et the last monthly council, pursuant to the standing orders ; the by-laws relating to coaches, chariots, cars, and like ear: riages ; the payment of £52 10s. to Lieut. Lord, for his services on the conservancy bill of l a st s ess i on ; an d the pay' tnent of subscriptions, as follows :—The Dispensaries, £ 15 , 1 10s. •, the Northern Hospital, £lOO ; the So u th ern Hospitint £100; the Opthalmic Institution, £3O : the Refuge of the Destitute, £25 ; the Botanic Garden, £lOO ; the Royal In" stitution, £lOO ; submitted pursuant to standing orders. Mr. RICHARD HouGIITON said, that in the absence of the town-clerk—(loud laughter)—he begged pardon, he meant in the absence of the chairman of the Finance Committee, the duty devolved upon him of stating a few particulars, which he hoped would induce the council Lo confirm the proceedings of the Finance Committee, which had not, however, in the past month, been remarkable for mach interest. The first matter he asked the council to confirm was the appointmen t of Thomas Boothby, as inspector of hackney coaches and collector of fines, which had been postponed under the stand ing orders. The next was the confirmation of the by-laws which-had been prepared relating to coaches, chariots, ears„' and like carriages. The com m itte e a l so as k e d th e a m ine" to confirm the payment to Lieutenant Lord of £52 108-, whose services had been required, and were of the greatest, use, in London, on the obtainin g o f th e conservancy bill ut last session. His services had commenced in the beginning, of February, 1842, and were not completed till the middle May. He (Mr. Houghton) might mention, that the mope which he had produced of the variations in the river fro 1837 to 1842 had been of great utility. Lieutenant Lords, testimony had been of the greatest use, and his services of such a nature as to save five times the money it was proposed to grant him, in engineers ; and his charges as a witness had been his mere personal expenses. The committee also re commended the following subscriptions to be paid. (See list above.) From the proceedings of the committee it would have been seen that all these subscriptions had been reconl" mended at one meeting, except that to the Royal Institution; with respect to which it had been considered that the various articles in it would be removed to the Gallery of Art, end that as the public could not have free access there, it would not be right to continue the payment of this subscription.' It now appeared, however, that the casts only, and not the pictures, had been removed ; and that artists and other in dividuals, who wished to avail themselves of the privilege' might go there as usual. The room where the casts ben . been kept had been elongated, and minerals, birds, and other things placed there. After this explanation, he hoped the' subscription of £lOO would be continued. Mr. Houghtoof concluded by moving the confirmation of the proceedings- Sir Tnosins BRANCKER seconded the motion, which was' carried. Thomas Boothby's appointment, the payment to Lieut. Lord, and the subscriptions, were then proposed. Mr. PARKER enquired whether the Eastern Dispensary was included in the sum proposed to be subscribed to the dispensaries. Mr. HOUGHTON replied affirmatively. The motions as proposed were then put and carried. BYE-LAWS The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK then read the bye-laws:re lating to coaches, chariots, cars, and like carriages. Mr. Nicol was dissatisfied with the clause relative to , the number of persons to be carried by the several vehicles. Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE moved that the bye-laws ue printed for the use of the council and the public. The motion was seconded by Mr. BLACKBURN. A desultory conversation followed upon the objection' started by Mr. Nicol; which terminated by Mr. Boxing T oo moving that the 'bye-laws be referred back tO the Finaq is . Committee with the view of b e i ng amen d e d, t h a t they ve printed, and laid before the council at their next month meeting for approval. Sir THOMAS BRANCKER seconded the motion. ! Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE and Mr. BL A C KBURN sa id, AO motion met their views, and they would withdraw that %hi eb they had proposed. Mr. Houghton's motion was then carried unanimously. WATCH COMMITTEE The Deputy TOWN CLERK read the proceedings of tbl committee, from which it appeared th a t th e comm ittee ha d r presented a gratuity of £5 to the widow of the late insPeO f Crouch, in consideration of his activity whilst a member of the police force. The proceedings were confirmed. IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE The proceedings of this committee were nest read. T ll ,l comprised the payment of a sum of £2OO to M r . G e o. WI for some land given up by him at the pric e w hi c h h e paid it, for the improvement of Fenwick-street. The confirmation of the proceedings was moved by Mr. HODGSON and seconded by Mr. Kii.stut.w. Mr. BIRKETT asked whether this proposed payment O f t not an attempt to override the resolution of the Council th is in the present state of the finances no expense on ne w svoric 7 should be incurred ? decide d Mr. HODGSON said this impro vemen t h a d b een dee' upon before that resolution was adopted. Mr. BIRKETT said he was satisfied with the explanation . The proceedings were then confirmed. COURTS OF LAW +•-•Sa TT • The proceedings of this committee contained nothing importance, and were confirmed without observation. MARKETS COMMITTEE. It appeared from the proceedings of this committee tbs the case of Henry Woods, whose memorial had been refer from the Council, had been investigated ; a n d the comrni t 'Ai resolved thereon that they could not recommend the COun.', to reinstate him in the office from which he had been dig charged Confirmed EDUCATION COMMITTEE. The following return was math: by the ,Education Col llll3 tee of the scholars in the Corporation Schools : North School. .. 240 . 197 ' 153 oath Sc. unk .. 190 Boys.. Girls.. Infants 12 5 15 1 __- .....- . ---- r On the books It appeared that th e comm itt ee h a d rece i ve d a communle2" ji from the churchwardens of St. Bartholomew's Churcul t bil Naylor-str ee t, represen ti ng t h at 250 s i tt i ngs ha d been Wog last 18 mouths set apart for the use of the children ill 0 , North Corpo ra ti on S c h oo l, an d request i ng t h at, i n consilie„r, tion of this acc omm od a ti on , th e sum o f £2O s h ou ld be i cid propriated toward s the gener a l expenses o f t h e church, "''' sum tUe committee recommended to be paid. ,1 lie ( Miss Wetherilt (now Mrs. Nel son ), h av i ng resigned the appointment of second mistress in the North School , ), committee recommended that Miss J ane Will oc k be ' pointed upon trial, at a salary of £6O per annum. we ll Upon a motion of Mr. MOLYNEUX the proceedings confirmed. GAOL COMMITTEE. A t °l From the proceedings of this com m itt ee , it appeare— small sums of. money h a d b een p a id t o t h ree prisonel l , i 'fli• their discharge fro m th e B oroug h G ao l ; an d th at so me " o p• culty had been exp er i ence d i n e ff ec ti ng contracts f or the bite' ply of potatoes f or th e use o f, the gaol. Only one had sent in,. although pl acar d s h a d been circulated and adQe r merits inserted in the papers inviting them.' ~e a rr Mr. H. LAwitE N c E sugges t e d, th at i n f u t ure , ville" - IV any sums were paid to prisoners on their discharg e r grounds for such payment should be stated. the Mr. BIRKETT said it was a very s trange thing tb at the magistrates were unable to obtain contracts for supplYi" i •iti l gaol with potatoes. The overseers had no such difficulty regard to the supplie s f or th e par i s h. __ i o' The MAYOR said th e t wo cases were different. 'D e ! p 0 0 ° toes were delive re d a t t h e gao l on l y as i t was convenleoce. the gaol, whilst a t th e par i s h t h ey were d e li vere d a ll at 0 This was the reason w h y t h ere was difficulty in obta' o t contracts. Mr. HORN BY sa id th e contract w hi c h h a d b ee n ent er P 0 into was an i m p rov id ent one, to the extent of, at le ast ' per cent. 111 61tg A Mr. BIRKETT thought, in this case, the pa r i s h mig ht frul something by supplyi ng th e gao l. H e h a d ma d e inqui.F.Yooo Mr. Michael Ashcroft, - and the opinion of that i'lld ic to i° tl' f was, that th ere wou ld b e p l enty of potatoes brought pre 0 i market to the en d o f th e season, an d t h at t h e crops 'lv excellent quality, and would no doubt keep. Mr. JOHN H OLMES sa id , i n consequence o f t h e reli:: o r tr ii which wer e ma d e respect i ng t h eir former contract or sv toes, they to o k every care to a d vert i se, an d placar d' for; make the m a tt er pu bli c; b ut none of the farmers Cau;lly ward, and they had expended as much money in this ice , would make the diff erence b e t ween a hi g h an d a low Proror/‘,i Mr. Cooexu said the contract for the West Derby house was ls. 3d. for short-tops to the end of Mar co ls. 7d. fo r cups , to b e delivered to the end of June- n tbeie The MAYOR said the parties could do no more ths of 1 1 had done, and he should not like to be the contracOn, l ao was sure, at th e l atter en d o f the season, the pronabilit'd, 45 he would lose money, as every l ou d w a s t o be examiled,:e Mr. PARKE R sa id t h e price was not to be c onsici' to much, as the quality was everything. lie could g° vi aPj Manx boats, and buy potatoes for 11d. ; but they we re tte t s o t nothing. Th ose w h o contracted low went to lior'firol-r picked up what they could get ; but if a respec table it 1 undertook to supply his 9wn,produce, he could n ot Jo less than the amount stated. The report was confirmed. . „ . . COURT OF RQUESTS. Aillv, , . . . . ref" t rOY nothing of importance was contained in these, Pltassi',lll4 „ except the appointment of Mr. Thos.A.shbrogice .° - t Co clerk in the Treasurer's office, postponed from the las cil, in pursuance of the standing orders.—Confirmed' SUNDRY COMMITTEES. To Oi bi rr s p roceedings abiishme ut ofth the Observatory C hurch E x a p n e d n d the i tu re, t o f t hall E stablish ment, H ea lth Town Committees, were severally read and CODfirra ed. PAID OFFICERS' COMMITTEE —SERJEANT-A--)lniniow JO S :, It appeared that this committee had taken the er no il two counsel, Mr. Cowling and Mr. Henderson; ti 'borl s g i ti O 4 question whether the borough fund could be legallY tio g with the salary of the sergeant-at-mace. Mr. Co, l ' o onfoet of opinion that the charge was illegal;' ea of the other hand, was of the opposite opinion ; a n fele these 'circumst ances, t h e comm i ttee submitted tilt the bill advice o ug ht t o b e taken, which might be done ' J il l; of counsel named consu l t i ng w i t h t h e S o li c itor-Gen ts e f o re the com m itt ee w i s h e d the sanction of the counc il ue ett further expense was incurred. f e n d Mr. LL OYD said, the first report of the Pa ;- .gh • Committee threw out a doubt whether • the b010'1_,,,03 could legally he charged with the payment of the: b icli o , o , at-mace's salary. It had appeared that the fees orge the Treasurer's statement, were charged against the di' ej. at-mace, did not belong to him at all, but to etil to aill p d' and that, as the report stated, he was not entitlec- , ! f 6i) bt ir which' he 'Could give to the•boroirgh fund in lie' -1 4e'rviif The'coin mittee'had instructed the Town: cleigc to t'eto'c: i e sel's opinion. He had' laid the case before I‘,l rs. r i6, ;ATV who was'af opinion that the conned could not let , ', o) , e atl salary. Mr. Henderson 's opinion was the other „liar , ' OP question was on the construction of the act of Pr 0 004 and as the c omm itt ee could not make their repor t „ hc oit_ o el office with . theSe conflicting' before to coL,P , A nt} proposed to call in the' assistance of another leaerl`itoci The office was held during the' pleasure of tli, i6 u r ;pig il v a ,e o ) it must either be' set in a proper position by parilladed the doubts which now hung over it or act of must be bbtained to - amend the 'act H of' W 36. Ike to Pr, C e by moving that the TOWn-clerk'be inStrocten opinion of the Solipito t r-Getieral, • „ g el; Mr.' . KILSHAVI s'econd'ed the' motion. y id) O f fice Sir Tncis'..l3i'ANdkurt.'Was afraid that %viol e t O ilo pe oc opinions "and shorthand writers' notes, the P ciAliffereifi Committee would cost the council a large of He was not certain whether all' this unsettlingl g oo be . , officers of thecouncil Oictnot do more harm tna ti l l o ne re of t P; would adinii, certainly, the Town:clerk's offi c e , s •istial fjc li o upon a proper footing . , and that 'additional _ 4 l be 0 01'4 requisite ; but he doubted whether it rl' t,ni " go into such small matters - as the sergeant - L. tbcf° Oriel' of such court. The question was Wllol4-*