The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-17 00:00:00

APRIL 17 JS 8 large towns especially the want of church accommoc: tion is very far indeed from being adequ'ate to the wants i , f 11), population. Facts of this nature will be brought forward by the deputation when they come forth to urge their claims upon public notice. To supply these wants the sum of £200,000 has been raised in Scotland, and about 170 new churches have been erected in the more destitute localities within the last two or three years. Sub-committees have been appointed in those places where new churches are required, which act under the general committee in Edinburgh. Fur every.bun dred pounds raised by local committees the general com mittee advance £25. It is thus obvious that whatever may be contributed to the funds of the general commit tee, an amount of Money thrice as large'niust be col lected in the various districts from which applications are made for relief ; and yet, under these circumstances, the general committee are unable to meet but a very small proportion of the demands made upon them for assistance. We feel convinced that the appeal of the . deputation will not be made in vain in Liverpool. Our Scottish friends will feel called upon by the strongest motives to render their efficient aid in carrying forward so glori• ous and praiseworthy an object. We have also reason to believe that the members of the Church . Of England will evince their readiness to neutralise the evil effects Which the apathy of the government is calculated to pro•, 'duce. At tlie present crisis we are hippy to find that the minor differences between the tWo' established churches of Crieat Britain have been placed in abeyance, and that the recognised authorities of both have united in main tenance' of the firintiple of a national chureh, in opposi tion to they voluntary" ag,ltators of the day. In illus tration of the feeling of amity which has been engen dered by the peculiar position of both churches, and of the mutual sympathy excited between the clergy of both —a sympathy arising from :a sense of common danger--- we may niention that several of the principal clergy . of the Church of Scotland recently dined with the Arch- bishop of Canterbury and several other dignitarieS of tire Church of England.- --We hope that the identity of feeling which has - thus contributed to draw together more closely in the bonds of 'Christian fellowship the clergy of koth churches,will also be followed by a reciprocity of action which shall issue in the furtherance of the spirit ual interests.,, of the inhabitants of both England and Scotland. • PARISH AFFAIRS.--THE VESTRY MEETING. — This day the annual vestry meeting will take place, for the Purpose of passing the accounts, and appointing officers for the ensuing year. Although the radical papers • maintain a profound silence upon the subject, we have rea s on to believe, as we have already on various occa sions intimated, that the liberals intend mustering in great force upon the occasion. in order, if possible, to carry every thing before them. Once more, therefore, and for the last time, 'we would urge our conservative friends to be on their guard, and beseech them to show by their punctual attendance that they are not prepared to sut render, into the hands . of the radical faction the en tire management of our parochial affairs. Nothing short of a complete monopoly of all the offices connected with the parish will 'satisfy ourlibetal opponents.' They have : shown - their grasping disposition sufficiently in reference 4/ to the control of our municipal affairs. The conserva tives know, therefore,. what may be expected from the ascendancy of the - same monopolising party in the select vestry. The silence and secrecy with which the emissaries of the Reform Association haVe . been at work, making their Preparations for the grand attack upon the parish offices, ought to he an additional motive to rouse the conserva tives to action.. The radicals have- been quietly calcu lating upon stealing.a march on the conservatives : but We very much mktake 11:e character of our friends if they will suffer the machinations of their - opportents to lre successflit. ft is - in the power of the friends of the Church to resist efFectually any: attempt which may be Made to bring ibis large community under the petty fogging domination of die liberal faction. We therefore call upon time format : -to make- such a demonstration on the present occasion as will deter the radicals front any future attempt of the like nature. , The recent example of Salford, where the faction was completely beaten on a tirnil'ar trial, ouglit to encourage our friends to make a determined - stand against the attacks of the liberal mo• nopolists. . - We suppose that it is intended, fr at the meeting this day, to moot the substitution o: Sir John Cain Hob house's act for that of Sturges Bourne, by which our parochial affairs are at present regulated. Should a mo tion to that effect be submitted to the meeting, of course, some of our friend,: • will resist its intrOduction ; and should a poll be demanded, let it be kept open until the latest hour permitted, in order that the faction may re ceive a convincing proof of the determination of the re spectable inhabitants of Liverpool to entrust the manage ment of the affairs to men who have some stake in the property of the parish, and some interest in the due ad- ministration of • its affairs. If a poll should take place ,w e would urge the conservatives to be indefatigable in exertions, that the result may prove . a permanent 'triumph. Again, let the conservatives reflect how Muth of the local •influence and patronage is already in the hands of the radicals, and let this consideration be coupled with the consequences which would inevitably result from the control of so unprincipled a faction over our - parish affairs CONSERVATIVES - OF LIVERPOOL ! GIVE YOUR ATTEND- ANCE THIS MQRNING AT THE VESTRY MEETING, AND IF A POLL SHOULD BE DEMANDED, SHOW BY YOUR VOTES 'THAT YOU WILL Nur BE TRAMPLED UPON BY TUE MO- NOPOLISING FACTION TILE a AMMON" 'AND SIR FRANCIS BURDETT.—OUr contemporary of yesterday has devoted nearly a column and a half in reply to the arguments of the Courier and ourselves in favour of the consistency of Sir Francis Bur dett. Fur our lives we cannot discover in the reply of the Albion, a s ingle statement which rebuts any of our assertions in our article of Friday last. As to the in sinuation that the article in the STANDARD was written after the writer had enjoyed the benefit of perusing that of his TOry brother," we have only to declare that We have not yet read the article in the Courier—not be cause we do not appreciate the talent and admire the prin =ciples of our worthy senior, but we have purposely ab stained from reading the article in question lest the " ge • neral coincidence of thought ind occasional similarity of expresSion" should be so "striking" as to lead to the in ference that we were fond of plagiarism. As to the re marks of the Albion in reply to the Courier, we may ~,;:iery safely leave the matter in the hands of our neigh rbta,-, who will no doubt inflict upon the Albion a suitable ,-,ca s tigation. As to ourselves, we have little cause to • find fatslll. with ' the Albion. The - whole burden of our contemporaty's article amounts to this—" What right have die• Tories Cu - entertain Sir Francis Burdett as a friend, "after denouncing him as an enemy ?" In answer to this iwe would merely say, (without adverting to any modifi .cation which may have taken place in the political opin jogs , of Tories,or Whigs,) that Sir Francis Burdett never 'as an enemy to the Church or to the Cutistitution ; but 4.1•. be was, unfortunately, fur some time acting in concert with those who.were sworn foes to both. The moment, however, tbat , the worthy baronet (:iscovered that the, sentiments of those with whom he had co-operated fur the, attainment of in object which did not imply either injury 'l.O the Church, or destruction to the institutions of the country, were not identical with lig own, that moment ,he denounced their conduct as hypocritical, and prepared 'to join himself to the ranks of the Conservatives, among , vvhorn he recognised several sincere reformers who had Joade the same discovery as himself.. Where, then, is the inconsistency of the Conservatives giving an invitation to Sir Francis Burdett? if they Alenouneed him in former times, they did so in the same sense that they deelaitned against the Duke of Welling- . ton, when he brought forward the measure of Catholic . emancipation—not beeluse the Duke was an enemy to th e Church, but becauSe he unwittingly co-operated with Abuse who secretly wished its destruction. The red cause of all the bitteiness which has been PhY , lj l , l ,),y ,the Radical press toyvards Sir FraneiS Burdett, the conviction that his manl3 honesty of purpose, and unsullied integrity of character, are no longer capable c.f being rendeted subservient to the wily schemes or those who pretend to the character, of reforme►s, but whose real object is destruction. THE TIMBER TRADE.—As' some very extensive and important sales of mahogany are about to take place in this town, it may prove interesting to some of our readers to learn the following particulars respeCting the asto nishing increase which has taken place, within the last few years, in this branch of trade. From a pamphlet written by Mr. Chaloner we find that within seven years, say. from January, 1831, the annual import has increased fourfold, and the consumption nearly in the same propot tion, namely,— Import. Consumption. 1831..260,000 feet —280,000 feet. 1832.-384.0(X) „ ..419,000 „ 1833-428 Am , ..523,0()() • 1834..475,000 „ —492,000 „ 1835..561,0(X) „ ..551,000 „ 1136-608.000 „ —582.000 „ 3-4ths of the year. 1837..824,600 „ —818,900 „ " From the Customs' returns it appeared that of 15,860 logs —the amount of Spanish and Honduras mahogany imported into Great 13titain during four months of this year—Liverpool had received 7068 logs. Notwithstanding the increased im port, the stock now remaining over is only 213,000 feet, against 211,000 feet, the average quantity which remained over at the close of each of the past six years. As a matt, Liverpool, and its system of business, is now preferred to every other port, and is resorted to by the chief buyers and consumers of the United Kingdom, and this 'becomes more manife s t every successive sale: France, GerroanY,'HusSia, the Mediterrinean, and In dia, drawing, of late, supplies from thismarket." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MONEY MARKET. (From the Swiday Times.) CITY, SATuttuA v.—The intelligence received from the United States to the 20th' nit. is, we regret to state, not very satisfactory. The uncertainty which. continued to . prevail, as to whether the banks would resiltile specie payments in the mid dle of May, kept all mercantile operations in a most uncertain state. The orders . which have come to hand for British goods are consequently very stnall—intieed, much more so than was calculated. upon. The advices state that the consignments which had been received out were principally upon neW account: • Many of the manufacturers in England have shipped goodsupon their own risk; and upon which serious losses would take place unless a marked change in the aspect of things soon arose. The receipts of the public revenue of America were declining tepidly, and the President Would 'have greatly to increase the amount of hills issued front the 1 reasury to Meet the defficiency.• The receipts in duties at the Custom-houses of New York, Bal timore, Philadelphia, and New Orleans, in the first three months of the present year would not be more than about one halles'great as in the same period of 1837. The issues of notes by the Treasury department have already been to the extent of 5;000,000 dollars, and it was estimated that several millions more would be put into circulation before the end of the year. The value of specie was on the decline at New York. The Americans continued to look forward for large supplies of gold front England and France. To realize the current prices iu England the planters and merchants were shipping off their produce with eagerness. It appears by the latest letters re ceived front New Yolk that, up to the 16th ult., there had been exported front the United States 663,000 bales, whereas at the same date of 1837 only 572,000 bales were sent off, and but 580.000 bales in .1836. We cannot yet quote any revival of consequence in the prin cipal articles of domestic or foreign produce. The export trade of the country is, however, very gradually increasing in activity. The consignments of manufactures to the United States are confined to supplies merely sufficient to meet the more pressing wants of parties on the other side of the Atlantic. The public Sales of colonial and foreign produce which have been in pro gress this week, have, generally gone . off at very (lull prices. The public sales of Tea have occupied the attention of the mer chants; brokers, and others interested, during the whole of the present week. Of the 174,400 packages which were originally declared for public competition, only 88,000 have yet passed; and of these, probably not more than 31.000 packages have been actually sold. The prices have. on the average, declined (the various quantities considered) from twopence to threepence per pound. . . The prices of English Funds have advanced again this week to the extent of to 2 per cent. The Beat's or speculators for a fall, were caught on setting , day (Tuesday last,) and had not stock to deliver to the amount they had before sold. The mar ket was in consequence raised upon them, thus increasing their previous losses. Ott the following day the differences were paid promptly. Tu the abundance ofcapital is the rise we have already quoted to be•attributed. The highest price of Consols obtained this week was 931, both for Money and Account; but on Thursday afternoon there were sellers at 631. The Stock markets were closed yesterday, it being Good Friday. The ad vances in the other public securities have not exceeded to % per cent. this week. The demand for stock has not been to any great meow. The premium of Exchequer Bills has been up to 69, and of India Bonds to 74 ; but on Thursday, a slight fall took place. East India Stock has been sold at 2695, and Bank ' of England Stack at 2051 to 206. The prospect of a contract of a new loan for the Spanish go , vernment, as communicated in the udvices received the day be fore yesterday, has not produced any beneficial effect upon the prices of the stock,• which have fallen from 214 to 201. Por tuguese Three per Cents have been on the decline; the Five per Cents were sold on Thursday at 255; and Three per Cents at 205; these rates being 4to per cent. lower than Monday last. The French funds have been heavy this week; the Five per Cents have fallen front 109 to 107-25; the Three per Cents to 80.50; and the Four per Cents to 101-75; Exchange 25f. 50c. The Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents have rallied a trifle, ,having fetched 541 on Thursday ; and The Five per Cents were saleable at 1001. There is nut anything et known upon which reliance may be placed, relative to the Progress of the negociatiou respecting Belgium and Holland. Belgium bonds have been steady. at about 10314. The prices of the South American, Securities have-been on the decline; Mexican - Stork hat fallen to 28;' Columbian, to 274; and Peruvian, , to 205. r There does not appear to be much dis Position at present to - engage in any fresh speculations. The Asphalte Shares have, however, reached 17 or 15 prem. A new company is about to be formed under favourable prospects. British Iron Shares are still heavy at - my to 15; - or 355 to 35 discount. The Bail -way Shares have .been in a - heavy state all this week. The latest prices of the London, and Birmingham are 179, or 89 prem. ;• of 'the-Great Western 934 or. 284 prem.; of the Brighton 144 or, 25 prem..; of the Greenwich 16%, or 3 dis cOunt; and of the Southampton 46 or 4 discount. An im povetrent may he noticed in the Joint Stock Banking Shares. British North American Bank Shares advanced 211, or 11 prem.: the London and 'Westminster to 21, or 1 prem.; and the Colonial Bank to 264, or.ll prem. TweLvE o'CLock.—Consols have advanced to 93,, both for money and account: - Exchequer Bills are at 67, and India Bonds at 7 premium. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, are at 101 X. Spanish Consols are worth 204 ; Portuguese Three per Cents .20= 3 ; Brazil Stock, 76; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents - 54 t. Shares'ate without alteration. CORRESPOND E NCE. LORD MULGRAVE'S IRISH TRANQUILLITY.-- MURDER OF MR. COOPER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. . . Slit,-The assassination of the late truly amiable and respect, able Mr. Cooper, by the iron-hearted miscreants of Tipperary .is a crime of so blody. and merciless a nature, as to excite m the minds of all who do not entertain ,sentiments with and kindred with the barbarians themselves, ,feelings of deep eke, cratton and horror. And ibis impression on the public mind must be associated with another of an equally solemn character. While we execrate the fiends in human shape who have perpe , trated the atrocious deed, let us also feel a manly and high toned indignation against those, be they the vassal placemen of Irish dentagotgue, or the literary flacks of the Irish press, who have been seeking to bolster up a bad cause and a worse government, by fictitious narratives of returning tranquillity and peace, for the purpose of palming on the credulity of an honest English public, a representation of an improved and improving state of Ireland, under the new radical regime, which is as false and as corrupt as its authors are designing and un principled. But I would beg leave to ask these Elohenlhes of ,modern legislation, how they will be pleased to reconcile this late act of savage authority with the vaunted miracles of amelioration elected by my Lord MulgraVe ? Why, the echoes of his own pompous and self-gratulatory address, iu reply to Earl Roden , have scarce passed away; the ink has scarcely dried upon the emphatic declaration of eertain itinerant Irish judges, and that all wits Morality and absence of outrage; and that the calendars were light, though the jails were crowded; above all, the cry— the triumphant announcement is yet ringing through the three kin gdonts — 4 '. NOT ONE CACITAt. CONVICTION tist IRELAND ;" and yet, ere we have. had leisure to ponder over statements so. - novel and extraordinary, after the turbulence and disaffection of centuries, the startling, the horrifying intelligence reaches us of a -mina deliberate and cold-blooded murder, openly perpe trated by a band of armed ruffians; and, further, that when the tidings were t e legraphed to a neighbouring, fair, the gratifying news was pasSed front lip to lip with a smile of savage curt. ferocious ekultatiou. - When we have such fadts as these fully and undeniably before us, is it any wonder. that the feeling 'of horror ' which revolts and Shrinks back f r om the tale of b l o od , should be in— stantly succeeded, by the throb of hitter execration against the political miscreants, literary and official, who have been this long time'past, truMpetting forth their reiterated forgeries about the present happy condition of Ireland, under the united auspices of the whig,-radical radical-triumvirate O'Mulgrave, Morpeth, and O'Connell'. But theSe feeling s of horror and indignation, however commendable and natural , would. be•of vet} , little use, unless they were productive of strong and permanent effect. • Englishmen ! let the Melancholy fate of the good but the un fortunate Mr. Cooper, Prove a salutary lesson, as well as la wholesome warning, to you in your connection with Irish politics. Let it-convince you how thoroughly the caitiffs lie in their baSe bad hearts, who would tell you that the reckless propensity to sacrifice human life, on their own wild principles of false expe diency or lawlesS vengeance, is at length eradicated from amongst the Irish peasantry; or that they have vet become so humanised in 'feeling as to forget the tiger-instiuct that revels in the shedding of blood for its own sake. Let it satisfy you that it i s nothing better than a system of the grossest cajolery and deception to represent to you that the wide-spread and secretly-banded conspiracy,. which has so long and so securely existed against the ribli , a!iiin of all law and the observance of all authority, and which is ever to break forth into open and contemptuous combination against the ordinances of both, un less backed by an armed soldiery and police, and enforced by the bakonet, is at length crushed in Ireland. In a word, En glishmen, that it is utterly and, foriti object, most perfidiously false to assert that the covert disaffection, the broad disloyalty, the guilt, the treachery, and the violence, which have entailed poverty, misery, and perennial fathine, as the hereditary curses of the Irish people, had even for a fleeting moment, in reaiitg, ceased to pollute the soil and blast the prosperity of a country, which Providence in its charity seems to have graciously dent iced for a paradise, but. which its own people, in their perverseness; have successfully laboured to mar into a hell. Believe it not people of England ! Such statements.are but political artifices invented for y'onr deception, and practised for others gain. Credit one who knows the condition of his wretched country well ; that, however speciously fabricated the cloak may be ;S +T,~~~,. .rw...~'T.'z^_ T_E3:°3~i.:.-YCC ..>..-~.i~'~2' :t%- ,41 which t h e t ril l cure attaf pAvvf-r of a revolutionary autocrat, secon , ting die corruptions of self-ag•raantising placenta!), miry have flung over Cite prostrate awl diseased slate of Ireland, the u corruptions and tie plate spots are still festering itenet,lii,j,itlitl when ifie• covering of the hypocrite,. is torn aside it will lit' fowl(' that it was the outward. manifestat mos which were veiled trout public view, not the inward causes which were eradicated. is worse, criminal, to assert that Irelaud presents any other-aspect at this moment. Why, let any man of coin mou sense reflect upon the matter for an. instant, and he will see the glaring absurdity•of the thing. A country for centuries racked ny intestine commotions- I ;er population the prey of every violent passion that can goad on to Alm most reckless deeds—her past history but a catalogue of murder, incendiarisin, midnight maraudings—aggregate gatherings of the peasantry in ..open day in avowed and armed resistance to the constituted j authorities—desperate and sanguinary conflicts between daring bodies of insurgents and the .civil forces, in which whole troops.: of the' atter have been cruelly.kunnolated. Well, iu such a state of thing,s, (and every one must admit the foregoing in the picture of Ireland as she /it“:beett,) growing ;Ind maturing for ages, is it to he believed that any single individual, conting to the head of a vice-regal administration, could be enabled at once to heal the wounds of the past, reconcile the enmities and jealousies of parties, restore confidence anti harmony to all classes, and, filially, se reform and redeem a lawless and turbu lent population, that whereas a few years ago the gibbet reeked with the number of its victims, there is now not a single tenant for the gallows. And all this effected Without the production of , a single wholesome measure.—without one real political benefit . being conferred on the great bulk of the people; nay, without an effort being made to free them from , the very grievances about which they are clamouring ! Why, it is monstrous to think upon it; and yet it is what every ministerial and radical journalist in the kingdom has been prating about since the accession of land Mulgrave to power.• But there are • other considerations connected with-both the assumed and the,pretended tranquillity . of Ireland, which the murder of Mr. Cooper suggests to one intimately acquainted with the state of his country, and which may be of some impor tance in the present- crisis of political events, to lay before the English public. •I mean the causes of the late shunt of :quiet— the means adopted to produce .the external calm—the agents employed in the work of deception—the seciets of the machi .nery,by which-the latelizrce , of the ."no CA PLTAL comvieTtoN"- was got up, and some other details which may not be found uninteresting. But I have already. trespassed too much on your kindness in the present letter; should you, however deem the subject of sufficient value as to give rue space•for future communications, I shall devote my- best attention to its con-- lideration.—l remain, your obedient servant, - • A TIPPERARY MAN. Liverpool, 12th, April, 1838: THE SHIPPING GAZETTE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDIRD. Limctun, 9th April; 1838. Ste —lll r. SVilliatn . Cole. of Crane Court, Fleet-street, with wh,",m I was associated in the property of the Shipping Gazette and Commercial Advertiser„ whilst I was in Scotland ,with his concurrence promoting, the interests of that paper, and without my Privity or.consent, intermitted.the publication on Saturday, the lbtb of March, and changed its .t itle on the Monday follow ing to that of the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, which he declares to be his sole, property. This has placed us in opposing positions, the relative value of which will have to be determined by legal process. To this unpleasant, and to me unexpected affair, I should never have dreaMt of iitaking public reference until its merits had been decided by a'dtsintei•ested tiihuna.l. if Mr. Cole had abstained from.using the Gazette as a means of personal annoy ance and injury to me, and had not,.most unfairly, left my re ply unheeded. . With this I send copies of the notice of which I complain, and of my letter thereon; and I beg leave respectfully to solicit the insertion of the latter, and of this communication, in your journal.—l am, Sc , COPY OF LETTER REFERRED TO IN THE PRECEDING. London, Thursday, 29th March, 1337. Stu, —My attention has been directed to a notice which ap peared in the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette on Friday, the 23d instant, and following days, wherein my name is unneces sarily paraded. and from which the readerA would infer that I ant sinisterly desirous of receiving monies intend ed for the pa per, and of interfering improperly in the settlement of its ac counts. On my return from Scotland, finding what, without my sanc tion or privity, you had cine with the property in my absence, and that there appeared no probability of a friendly adjustment of our differences; I expressly declared to you that, without other notice, I should not interfere' with the credits or debits of the paper, but should hold you accountable in 'every Point of view, both prospectively as well as retrospectively. Bv that declaration I have so strictly abided, that you cannot adduce single instance of any application for money made since then by me. The questhins .if accounts. of considerations respectively given, or of the ce;,satiou or otherwise of our connection as co proprietors, •are suiijects for determination elsewhere. I have to request that you will give this letter the same pub licity as that nest iwed MI the repeated notice to which I have referred.—l• am. & • • • • .1. L. STEV ENS. William Cole, aL'sq., 3, Crane . ..court, Fleet-street. E,1\14:1-0)()()1, STANI)ARI) . . No.W M A GISTR ATE. --A t the present quarter sessions for the hundrect of Salford, Jam,: Taylor, Esq., Vf Todutorden Pried I, V In king the nitegsi,try oaths. LioNDON C a 11.--One of these vehicle; termed a vis a or as the Londoners term it a tri. , a we, is on the Castle-street . hackney-eoach stand. • It is, we believe, the first brought down . to Liverpool. _ We Understand the induction of the Rev. Irmo Crichton will take place to-morrow, (We.loesdav4at the Scotch Seces sion Church,' Mount Pleasant. The Rev. U avid King. and other ministers front Glasgow, are expected to assist on the occasion. Tne regiment of King's Cheshire Yeomanry will assemble at Liverpool, for six days' duty, ou the 26th of May, under the commaud of Lieut. (:',olone! Wilbraham Egerton. The fereat detachments µ•ill march on Friday, the 25th, to Warring ton, Latchford, Wilderspool, and Sankey. EfiGH CONSTABLE FOB .THE HUN:1)10W OF SALFORD.—II. Newbery, Esq., of Peuilleton„ awl —John Hargreaves, jun., of Newport House. Great Bolton, appointed. at the January quar ter sessions for the hundred, have been sworn as high constables at the present sessions. WRECKERS.—On Saturday, five . .men were brought before the Rev. Milos Formby and Mr. Rawson, magistrates of the county, charged with having plundered the schooner Tyro, recently wrecked off Formby, of part of her cargo. They were com mitted tp the House of Correction for two months, the magis trates expressing their determination to punish allsuch offenders with the utmost severity. MAN DHOWNEO.—On Thursday morning a young man was found drowned on the Bootle shore, in height about five feet five inches, and of light complexion. He had on a pilot-cloth coat,. dark valentia vest, and plaid trousers, shoes nearly new, with some money on his person. The body lies at the Bootle Coffee House. If not owned shortly after the coroner's inquest, it will be interred. Mr. Orme, overseer, Bootle-cum-Linacre, can give further information. REMOVAL OF THE ACK ALI Wanks.—We understand thit in consequence of the alkali works of this town being about to he put down, it is contemplation by a few spirited individuals, -connected with those works to establish a similar concern in Runcorn, on-the most extensive scale, for the manufactuie of British alkali, where at present this business is carried on with out the least molestation from the inhabitants or neighbour hood—.-Mercury. • MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Thursday night, about half-past 11 o'clock, a young man, respectably connected, put an end to his existence at his lodgings in Pilgrim-street. by shooting him self through the head with a pistol. He died instantly. The pistol, it appeared, had burst, and severely wounded his hand when it went off. Habits of intemperance are said to have been the nrimary cause of this miserable catastrophe, PORT 0 P Cmpwrga.—:lt is with great pleasure we notice the increasing manifestations of a revival of trade in this port. On Monday - fist no less than sixteen large vessels from London, Wales, Ireland, &c., besides numerous small craft, were lying at our wharfs. This looks well, and argues much in favour of the improvementsof the depth of the Dee, made by the exertions of the River Dee Company; 1.1,1 d we hope that the time is not far distant when Chester will present the appearance it once did, and the flags of all nations will be unfurled in our port. — Chester Gazette. . . THE CHEMICAL NUISANCES.—Upon the. principle, we sup pose, of making hay while the sun shines, the proprietors o these works are making the greatest possible use of them dur ing the brief spat.° that, after the recent verdicts, they will be allowed to keep them open.: They are working by day and by night, and emitting the celebrated white vapour in, apparently, greater quantities than ever. Nor will the works, we hear, be stopped until towards the middle of summer. The delay in stopping them arises frOm the impossibility of bringing Mr. ➢lus pratt up far judgment next term, an impossibility stated by Mr. Cresswell, as well as from an implied promise, on the part of that - gentleman, when certain parties consented to plead guilty to the indictments against them, that they should be allowed a reasonable time to abate the nuisance. The, Corpora ►ion, the prosecutors in these cases, are determined to follow up the prosecution, and, should the parties hesitate or refuse to abate the nuisance, to hying them up for judgment., GLASGOW AND LIVERPOOL IRON STEAMEIG—To expedite the communicatioo between London and Glasgow, a line of iron steam-vessels is in progress of being► built fur the Liver pool and Glasgow stations, to sail every day at a regular hour front both stations ; and so perfectly adapted is their construc tion to be for the Liverpool and Glasgow trade, that they will arrive at or depart from, the Broomielaw at any state of the tide. The peculiarity of the construction introduces a new and very important improvement in ship-building. The hull of the vessel is to be divided into five sections, with strong partitions of iron; so that if by collision with any other vessel or striking on a rock, or other accident, one or even two of the sections should be shattered and tilled with water, the vessel would con tinue buoyant, the other sections being entire. They will thus become safety vessels, not only as regards tire, but other acci dents at sea. Their speed is guaranteed to be considerably greater than any steamer at present entering the Clyde; mid it is calculated that, when established, the communication be tween Glasgow and London, via the Birmingham railway, will Le less than 30 hums.—Journal. OPENING OF TILE LONDON AND BIRmINGII.43I RAILWAY. — The hue float Birmingham to Rugby, pursuant to announce ment, was ,opened on Monday morning, at nine o'clock; the intermediate stages between that place and Denbigh Hall, a distance of 3t; miles, being performed by coaches engaged for that purpose, and the remainder by the railway. The general office in front of the station, is of a magnificent character, and intended for meetings of the directors, and the offices of their secretary. About sixty carriages. including first and second class trains, were arranged in order under the station-house. At four minutes past nine the first train, consisting of four first class and five second class carriages, and containing about 130 passengers, the engine No. 12 being attached, slowly moved from the station yard, amidst the cheers and congratulations of those assembled: On arriving at the station-house at Rugby.. the passengers alighted, and ample accommodation was prepar ed to convey thoSe who intended pursuing their route to London, to Denbigh Ball, front whence they would go by railway to town. The' scene here was must animated and delightful, the. Atitiou-Yard presenting the appearance of an amphitheatre, - surroanded by equipages and horsemen, and crowded by groups or traily dressed holyday people, who wetted the passengers with enthusiastic cheering. Here every eminence, and any place that could command a sight of, the interesting spectacle, was occupied. In about ten minutes, nine coaches and omni buses drove off in spirited style, conveying about 100 passengers for the metropolis In half an hour's time, everything being priverly adjusted, the carriage containing the luggage started (dr, At Rugby, all was life and animation.. The inhabitants appeared highly delighted, ;And the day. was ; kept us a general holiday. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CilASE.—The , next display of the highly popular diversion of a steeple chase will be more than usually attractive in . this town, especially when it is made known that .its promoters, with a laudable desire to keep pace with other counties more celebrated for this description of sport, have paid a visit to some of the most renowned fields Of action, and succeeded in enlisting a glorious baud of stanch supporters of the " neck-or-nothing" school. The parties al luded to, while at-Chelteuhain, made strenuous efforts to ac quire auxiliary aid, and were eminently successful,. having ob tained the names of the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Segrave, Earl of Chesterfield, Captain. Lamb (the owner of Vivian), and a number of other influential sporting gentlemen, not only as subscribers to the forthconaing steeple chase, but accompanied by a promise to exert their influence in furtherance of the de sign, by making it one of the most splendid affairs of the sort ever got up here. The list already boasts of 22 subscribers, in cluding the noblemen above pained, therefore a very strong entry may be safely booked. The aristocratic character of the muster will not, however, be confined to the bipeds, as the " nobs" have promised the attendance. of their quadrupeds as well as of themselves. To sum up the whole of these pro mising, things. we arrive at the grand climax, by being enabled to state that Viscount Molyneux will be the steward for the occasion; and, we need scarcely add, that his acknowledged fitness for the post will be a sufficient guarantee for the com pleteness of the arrangements that will he necessary on the day of running. These ‘• means and appliances," if net broken to the hope, we base little doubt will be the cause of attracting a a host of fashionables to the "good old town," thus giving greater eclat to such meetings than has hitherto attended them. SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS Foe WEST DERBY. — On Thurs day a petty sessions was held at the Court-house, Kirkdale, at which Sir Thomas Brauker and Messrs. Aspinall and Rawson magistrates for the comity, were 'present. After disposing of some unimpoi taut business, the annual accounts of the survey _ms of the highways for the township of West Derby were laid before them tot the purpose of being passed. It may be recol lected that at the late Meeting of the ratepayers of the above township it was resolved, on the 'melon of Mr. Hardy , that the surveyors' accounts should not pass ; but as the sanetion of the magistrates in petty sessions was neces , nary to cart y the resolution into effect, the parties came for ward on this occasion to submit their case to the decision of the bench. Mr. Sanders, law-clerk for the township, said that, ob jections having been made to the surveyors' accounts, an ()ppm.- tunity was now afforded, agreeably to the provisions of the highway act. oh stating them before the magistrates. He then asked if any nersens presentobjected to the surveyors' accounts. Mr. [lardy - said he did. The books and vouchers of the sur veyors being produced. Mr. [lardy sl id he was prepared to prove that, instead of the surveyors having a balance of £l3 13s. in their favour, they were indebted to the township no less a sum than £318195. 7 d., and be was convinced the ratepayers might recover to that amount. He then objected to an item of £5O odd, the balance of an account, for which, as we under- Stood him,, no receipt had been given. Mr. H. Sandars, in explanation, said all the moneys collected had been paid into the bank; and the reason why the last bank cheque did not appear in„the book was, that he held the balance of it in his 'hail& alter paying a collector's salary. Some delay having occprred in consequence of Mr. Hardy's objections, the magis trales took the books into their own bands and examined them, after which Sir Thuinas Braucker told Mr. Hardy that be was wrong in his estimate of the surveyor's defalcations to the ex tent of EIOS 16s. 3d. , a sum which he had first included in their receipts and then aded to another account. Mr. R. Sandars. —lt is merely a political movement. The Magistrates.—We can't hear any thing about that. Mr. T. Smith remarked that Mr. Hardy had reckoned twice. Mr. Hardy.—l admit the mistake. The Law-clerk said that either party had the power of appeal. In answer to Sir T. Braucker, Mr. Hardy said he "took all'his objections from the surveyors' bank-hook. As the haiik book, it appeared, contained sundry private accounts, which were blended with those of the township, the magistrates "said they did not see they had any thing to do with it. The only question fur their consideration was, were the surveyors Correct in their accounts of receipts and disbursements. This was all the ratepayers had to ascertain. If the overseers chose to carry the money in their pockets, no one could object, so lung as they were accountable for it. Mr. Hardy attempted to prove by different statements of figures that there was a gr ea t discrepancy betwixt the amou n t the surveyors had actually re ceived and that with which they had charged themselves. Oue of the surveyors said they had books and vouchers for every fasthing of their accounts. Mr. Rawson said, after examiniov the'books, the m agistrates found that £l5 odds were due to the surveyors from the township. Mr. Hardy was next asked to point out the charges he objected to. He mentioned three or four, amounting in the whole to £37 his. The principal one I was a sum of £22 Ios., which the surveyors had paid to the assessors, and which, he contended, the magistrates could nut possibly sanction, it being in direct opposition to the highway act. The magistrates wished to see the clause he referred to; but after searching the paces of the act for a considerable time, he said that he could not find it. A second charge to which he objected was an account of £9 paid to a pavioiii', of which no entry had been made in the books, thous i h a voucher was pro duced. The Law-clerk recd ati extract from the act, to the purport that it was discretiouary with the Magistrates whether they allowed the charge in that form sir not. The magistrates ever-ruled all the objections. Mr. Hardy nevertheless con tended that a balance of £212 would still remain due to the township, and it was for the surveyors to show how it had been expended. Sir ThOttois Brancker ended a tedious and, towards the close,-a personal discussion' by stating that the magistrates had considered the items iiiijected to by Mr. Hardy, and round that iheY were satisfactorily accounted for by . the surveyors; thilt the charges objected to were reasonable, and that there• fore the surveyors accounts do pass. Titus " vanistied into thin air" the party meddlings or this unquiet TO TILE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.IIID. Sir,—There are frequently abuses of public duty, which, however grievous to individuals and injurious to society, it is impossible to pool - l A—owing to the elevated situation of the parties committing them. I may be mistaken in describing the following case as coming under this head, but conceiving my_ self to be an injured party, and nut meeting with due protection from the proper authority., I am anxious to state the following case to the public 7hrough the medium r of the press. which, as the real 'guardian a2id protection of justice to all classes, may be induced to delivt ran opinion on it, affecting, as it must, the majority of the mercantile and trading 6 - immunity. • , On Saturday last, the 14th instant, I made an application to Mr. Hall, the magistrate, fur a warrant, to arrest in Ireland, a workniturwho - had - buerr several months in our employment, and who I conceived to kie guilty of au act constituting felony and combination. - Hr. Hail asked, could I swear to the circumstances? and I replied that I had inv witness in court to prove the facts; that.. I was the prosecutor, and requested permission to state the facts first, and 1).00 them afterwards. Mr. Hall refdsed to hear me, but called my witness, who is an apprentice, and asked what he had to say My apprentice answered, that a man., -in 4 airomploment had induced him to assist in abstracting his indentures out of my desk With the view of taking him to London. Mr. Halt asked—" Where are. 1 Ito indentures now?" and my . apprentice stated that be, returned I:4eur to me the day before* (Good Friday.) Mr. Hall, addressing me, said—Oh. this is no ease to be brought here—wherettpoal some one of Mr,- Hall's assistants or clerks seated below him, - desired we to move off. , . again requested permission to state particularly the circuin'-' stances. but Mr. Hall would not hear me, and a policeman put his hand. upon arie,,:lind made use of :some tat all events) un necessary language, to the effect that I might go home now, and not be biinging'such complaints there. - 1 had no resource hut to leave the court quietly, but fully de termined, at the same time, to state my case through the press, and obtain the opinion of others upon the matter. A person of the name of Jo4n, Kenny was, till a few days ago, a workman ii) our employment, receiving a salary of 30s. week. He was intrusted with the key of an outer gate leading to our printing office, in Cattle-street. Kenny, being about to leave our service, not on very good terms, proposed to our ap prentice (who was a valual“.e hand, entrusted with the key of the counting house) that they would contrive to get possession of the counteepart of. his hidenture, fur the purpose hereafter mentioned.—Accordingly, on Sunday, the Sth instant,. (there being no one then on our premises) Kenny and the apprentice, by means of their joint keys, gut into our counting-house, and, after searching our files, &c., succeeded in abstracting the in denture from our desk. The indenture was taken Out of our desk by this Kenny, and kept•by him from that time till he was going to Dublin (on the 12th instant,) for the. purpose of in ducing another apprentice (his own brother, a boy of good character and talent,) out of our employment there, when he gave the indenture in charge of the apprentice, however, mak ing him promise never to return it to us, or to disclose anything whatever of what had been done by either of them; stating, at the same time, that he would be back in LiverpoOl from Dub lin in a week, having taken a lawfully bound apprentice limn us there,, and that - he and Ile two apprentices would at once proceed to London and seek their fortune. The day after Kenny had left Liverpool, (Wrod Friday,) however, our apprentice relented of his conduct, and, of his • own accord, confessed his error. Upon hearing his statement, my determination Was, if agreeable to the laws of this country, to get a warrant for the arrest of 'Kenny in Dublin, and have him tried-in Liverpool for-the double 'offence of theft and com bination, and, if guilty, to meet with whatever punishment might be due to him; however, from the manner in which I was treated by Mr. Hall and his assistants, I may conclude that if I seek for redress, it must be in the city of Dublin, where the magistrates are generally admired and respected for their gentlemanly demeanour to all parties with whom their office brings them in contact, and for the due patience and good tem per with which they investigate and decide on all matters which are submitted tot ben-judgment. HENRY SHAW. April 16th, 1838. [We have admitted the foregoing in consequence of Mr. Shaw's having appended his name and address—a rule which we invariably insist upon, where specific charges are brought forward agaiust public; characters.—E. L. S.] Mr. Love, the polyphonist, and Mr. Sutton, the ventrilo- I quist, are among the passengers fo r Ne w York, b y the packet ship England. THEATRE HOY A L.—Last evening Mr. Edward Lytton Bul wer's new play of "The Lady of the Lyons," was brought out at this theatre for the first time. We have not space or time for any particular comments, or for any lengthened critique; but, so far as a first hearing of it enables us to form an opinion, we think it is a play likely to become a standard favourite. The plot is full of interest, and. is ingeniously developed; and it abounds with many passages of noble sentiment—sentiments calculated to render the stage the most useful, as well as the most attractive Anetlitnu of instruction and of improvemenL,. We feel confident. that no voath of ingenuous and ardent feeling could sit and hear the play of "The Lady of Lyons," without being fired with the same emulation. the same honourable feel ings, and the same laudable ambition which crowns with suc cess the efforts of Claude Melnotte. The -plot of the piece is briefly this: Claude (Mr. Stuart) is a peasaut, and falls in love with the beautiful but proud Pauline (Miss Faucit). He indices some poetry to her, which she scorns because proceeding from a • neasaut.• • His • love is turned to a feeling* of re venge, under the influence of which, he enters into an agree ment with i3eauseant, (Mr. Howard) a rich gentleman of Lyons, who has been refused by Pauline, to win . and marry her, passing himself off as a prince, and Beauseant providing him the means. The plot succeeds; Madame Des ehappelles, (Mrs. Clarke) Pauline's mother, is delighted at the idea of her daughter wedding a prince, and the match is com pleted. Pauline, when she . discovers that she has married a peasant is highly enraged, and Claude, whose affection for her had returned, consents to a divorce, enters the army, gains rank by his bravery, and afterwards marries her on equal terms, and as an honourable man. The piece was well got up; and the acting throughout good Mr. Stuart, Mr. Baker, and Mrs. Clarke, are especially deserving of approbation for their clever acting.. A new Pantomime, " Harlequin in Sicily," for the Easter holidays, closed the performances. There was a good house. - LIVE TUREOT.—Under his head, we inserted, on Tuesday last. a paragraph, on what we considered good atubority, con tradict;ng &statement which appeared in the Liverpool Chroni cle. We have since ascertained, that the statement put forth in the ChreS icle was perfectly correct; and We have further to State, that Mr. Newton. of No:•14; SJohn's fish market, has, during the presettt week, an abundant: supply of that delicious luxury—li ve tnrbot;: which. notwithstanding the late violent gales, he edutiOues . to sell at the sanie low nrices as heretofore. :We also understand, that Mr. Newton' has taken the Port 104, ,und Port Stewart salmon fishery, which will enable him to pro vide an abundant supply for the Liverpool market at the most reasonable prices, POLICE - INTELLIGENCE STEALING COPPFIL—On Thursday, at the Police-office, three lads, pameerhotti,s C.,:derbattk. Thotnas I.;,•ttwit, and Tlrotnas Parry, were plac,l i,et . ore tire Nlagistrates, barged with steai ing'a quantity :of eopper front St. James's Market. It appear ed that they hurl got access to the 'market on Wednesday night„, by getting into the yard of an etoply house adjoining, and had ransacked all the stalk in the market for t•he motley to be found in the different tills, and had thus obtained about .f.:3 in copper. A numberof the stall-keepers spoke to having their tills broken open. and copper money to yarion4 amounts being missing. The thieves were detected on Thar -day morning making their escape with their booty from the empty house. Calderbank and Brown were committed to take their trials; Parry was remand ed fur further inquiry. . - - SMUGGLING.—On ThtitSday, at the Police-office, Daniel O'Flaherty, a watettimseman in the employ'ot Messrs. A. Brown and Co., was placed before the Magistrates on a charg\r-ofhav ing attempted to smuggle a quantity- of British spirits by the: Isabella Napier, trading between this port and Londonderry. It appeared, that the defendant had consigned to him a crate of eggs and six firkins Eipparently'of butter; that he called at the vessel as she was unloading, saying, he expected these goods, and paid t he freight 108.9 d. ; that afterwards, one of the custom house officers, ou examining the cargo, thought there was some thing suspiciqus about one of the firkins, and timed it with his spear, when out started whisky. A general examination of the cargo took place, and three other firkins were found to contain whisky in a similar manner. Of the six firkins addressed to the defendant, four contained whisky, the other two butter. In each of the four firkins was placed a small keg containing whisky, packed round with soft earth. The four kegs contained eighteen gallons of whisky, 14 per cent. overproof, equal to twenty-two gallons of proof spirits. Mr. Hall thought this a had case. The Magistrates should not convict the defendant its the lowest mit"- ga.tion of the penalty, but convict hint in the mitigated penalty of £5O. PoCKET PICKING.—On Saturday at the Police-office, three lads, named Doherty, Shaw, and Watson, were placed at the bar charged with ha. - ving the night before attempted to pick the pocket of a gentle Man in the street. A female stated that she had observed them following the gentleman for a length of time, when he, nearly opposite to where she was.standiug. crossed over the street, and then she heard the prisoner Watson say to Shaw, "G— d— you, you did not pull it out," to which Shaw replied in similar phraseology, " you are a I—r, I did pull it out." They then all went down Clare -street, which is a very dark street, apparently to conceal themselves, and she informed a policeman of what she had seen and heard. Policeman 331 stated that he was informed by the last Witness of the above circumstances and went down Clare•street, where he appre hended the three standing at a back door. The prisoners all stonily asserted that they were "doing nothing," and amidst chiming asseverations of " very hard sir," " standing at the cor [of the street 'sir," `• never see me here again sir," &c. &c. Thev were each committed for three.months to Kirkdale. JUVENII.III THIEF.—On Saturday at the police-office, a lad about 12 years of age, named Win. Corlass, was placed before the ma,cistrates on a charge of robbing the till of ,Mrs. Lucas's shop in Bold-street. A young female froM the shop stated that they had repeatedly missed copper from the till and suspected this lad, whom they had taken as an errand boy three weeks be fore, of having taken it They accordingly, on Thursday, marked - a quantity of copper in the till, and soon after it was all gone. They called in a policeman and had the lad s e arc h e d, and the copper was found upon hon. They had received a very good character - with the lad. Mr. Hall—" Well, what haveVou to say?" Boy—" Please sir, I took the money sir." NJ - , Hall —" How came you to do that ?" Boy—" Please sir, there was a boy at the-door and he told me tolake it." Mr. Hall —" How _ _ old are you ?" • Boy—" Please sir, 12." Mr. Eltill—" You must he a very bad boy!" Boy—" No sir, please sir. I never was here before." It was stated that his . father was a journeyman cabinet-maker; Mr. Hall remanded bins untill Monday till he bad seen the father. MATRIMONIAL FIkiLICITY.—OR Saturday at the police-office, an extraordinary looking individual. named Hadfield, was placed at the bar, under a warrant, charged by his wife, who was almost as singular looking a woman, with ill-using her. The prisoner was tall and thin almost to emaciation, yet there was nothing about him to betoken positive distressor want, but aconsiderable air of self importance. Had he had an inverted basin on his head he would have been a living representation of the prints of Don Quixote, the valiant Knight of Salamanca. His wife, a Woman .of middle age, who resembled hint exceedingly in ap pearance, commenced her charge thus :—" Gentlemen, 1 want a clearance of this mad; I can't live with him. He is a mur derer. Mr. Hall—What did he do to you ou the 7th of April ? Complainant—He struck toe and threatened Inv life at different times. Mr. Hall—What did he say - oil Saturday? Complain ant—lie th'reatened to murder. - Mr. 0411—W hat did he say ? Complainant—lie said he would have my life before morning. He asked toe for I,ls. and I told hint I could not give him it; had given hint 3d. in the morning, (a laugh) and I have only beets married to him nine weeks last-Tuesday. He said he would have my pricket and my puddings along with it if I would nut give any money, and then struck me. Mr. Hall—Has he behaved kindly to you before? Complainara— No sir ; never since I have been married to him. Mr. Hall—Was he drunk ? Complainant —He was middling; but he's threatened me in .4nbriefy. Prisoner—She is welcome to enjoy my half; and gentlemen, I have neither hurt her, nor will hurt her. Mr: Hall—Where do you get the Ils. a' week ? Complainant—l draw it sir; he does not earn it, it is allowed him for certain property. Prisoner—lt is allowed me by the property of my family, and such times as I have drawn it, she has had half of it. Pin very sorry indeed that she should attempt to hurt her husband in this manner. Mr. Hall—lt is very wrong to keep her its a perpetual state of alarm by threatening her in this manner. You must find bail to keep the peace. On this an nouncement the antiquated couple glanced ou each other an extraordinary look of anything but love. lasso ELoQuENcx.—Yesterday, at the Police-oflice, a genu ine sample of an Irishman, fresh as imported, and a fine speci men of the wordy, blarney, unprincipled race, was placed before the magistrats on a charge at having stolen a roll of tobacco twist from a tobacconist's shop in Parliament-street. Police luau No. 272 stated, that on Saturday night, about 11 o'clock, he heard a cry of "Stop thief!" and saw the prisoner running and drop a roll of tobacco-twist. Ile took him into custody. A lad named Joshua Walinsley, stated that his master's shop was in No. 3, Parliament-street, and he saw the prisoner come in and deliberately take the roll of tobacco off the counter and run away. He ran out after him, cryin,g "Stop thief!" and he was taken into custody. Mr: If all:' Well, what have you to say ?--Yrisuner : GinClemen, place y e r h a rmer, shur,..l was alther bain' wurkin' till nine o'clock in Prince's Dock, an' I was wantin' to take out a shirt ov mine i' the pawn, savin' yer presince, an' dhe woman ov dhe house weut up to dhe top ov Mersey-street, an' 1 wanted a few shur, to take out a shirt, s avin' your presince; an' I was comin' dtren New Bird street, shur, an' dhe night was rainin' a little, an' I was in a littl e burly, an' there was two men a comics' up, an' I did not know whot dhey was shoutin', Obey were a tar distant way shur, an' dhey shouted , " stop, stop!" an nobodyits dhe sthreet bud me dhe same time, an' the gintleman (policeman) tuk a holt ov me. And giutletnen, you may inquire into id, if id is a likely thin' I should take a tobacco roll-1 could take use oat, shur, l never knowed at or now about id. Mr. Hall: Is be known ?—M r. Pat kinson : He has been co intn.ttes.. Mr. Hall: Two months in Kirkdale.—Prisoner : Well, shur, if yer banner; shur, would remit me for two or three days, jilt to get my day's wages, I will come back again and stop dhe term. The prisoner's eloquence was unavailing. He was thrust be low in the midst of his speech. • POCKET Picisitsu.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a lad about 12 years of age, named Fitzsimon, was placed at the bar, charged by a gentleman with having attempted to pick his pocket, the night before in King -street. The geotleinanstated, that as he was passing along King-street the night before, he felt a pull at his coat lap, and caught the prisoner attempting to pick his pocket. He iwmcdialy seized hold of him, when he cried out, " Will you see this fellow ill use me ?" and several persons gathered round and struck him (complainant.) Mr. Hall : Well, what have you to say ?—nisoner: I have no other ways and means of keeping myself, Complainant: He gut between my legs and caught hold of me by the thigh with his teeth, and bit the piece out and tore my trousers. Mr. Parkiusoa said the prisoner had only been out of custody two day s . He was committed for three tintlis to the Borough House of Correction. DOSING FOR SOVEREIGNS.—Yesterday, I at the Police-office, an Irishman, named James M'Giff, with " thief " indelibly stamped on every feature, an intending emigrant to the United States of America. was charged by another emigrant, 'mined James Crouch, with having, robbed hint of four sovereign's. The complainant, an English country lad, staled that he was about emigrating to America, and became acquainted with the prisoner aboard the vessel, which is to sail this day. The pri soner went with him to his berth, where he (complainant) took out his money (4 sovs.) from his box, as he thought it would not be quite sale, and put them in his pocket. The prisoner ad vised him to conceal them in the lining of his coat, and said he would put them there for him. He apparently did so, and when he (Ihe complainant) telt at them he thought there was only one. So he opened his coat lining innuediatelY and found unit a shiiling. He immediately called an officer and g ave the prisoner into custody. Officer 37 said that he took the prisoner but found no money about him. His ihipressian was that the prisoner had swallowed it, as he was apparently throwing up and could not speak when he spoke to him. A ticket for his passage was found upon him. Prisoner.—l came a boato yes terday; 1 could take my oat' I bed nattier part of his motley nor know what came of id. Mr. hall.—'There is no doubt you swallowed it. (To Mr. Parkinson.) 1 think if he was placed in the hands of a doctor? ( Laughter.) Mr. Parkinson. —I will take care of him and have him dosed. Mr. Hall.—Very well; dose him. (Continued laughter.) To complainant. Come here to-morrow morning. (Roars of laughter:) BANK NOTES FouNo.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a female, named Nancy Roberts, was placed before the magis trates charged with having changed three L 10 Bank of England notes, which were lost on Saturday afternoon by a young man named Rogeis, an apprentice to Mr. Williams, draper, of St. James's-street. It appeared that the apprentice had been sent to receive a payment of £34, and received three £l.O notes and four sovereigns, which he kept in his hand on his way to his master's. When he got to his master's the notes were missing, but the sovereigns remained in his hand. A reward of £5 was - offered for the recovery of the notes. Since then, two of the notes had been changed and traced to the prisoner. She was remanded for further inquiry. Most probably she had found them. HOUSE STRlPPlNG.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a man named Thomas Manley, who keeps a shop for the sale of goods in Sparling-street, was charged before the magistrates with having stripped a house of a quantity of furniture. It ap pears that a Captain Day, who lives in Hill-street, had gone to sea, and his wife had gone amongst her friends and had locked the house up. About a fortnight ago, Constable Chalmers got some information which led him to suppose that the house had been got into and some of the furniture conveyed away. He made enquiries and found the carter who had con veyed away the furniture, and from him learnt that it wa s carried to the prisoner's house. 'the prisoner :iad told the carter that it was his father's house, and therefore he had no suspicion that all was not correct, or that he was robbing the house. This, however, was not the case. A number of articles of furniture were found at the prisoner's house, and identified by a girl who had lived -servant with Captain Day, The pri soner was remanded for further information. GENERAL EVANS AND HIS LEGlON.—Yesterday, ,at the Police•office, four miserable looking, half starved,. and sun burnt men, two of them dressed in tattered regimental coats, named Benjamin Curs, William Clarice, Andrew Goodwin, and John Wilson, were placed at the bar, charged with wandering about the streets on Saturday night, and havim , no where ,to go. They stated, that they were front Spain,.and were landed at the Cove of Cork, without a halfpenny in the world, and no place to ''go to. One of them belonged to. Davenport. in Devonshire, two to London, and another to Manchester. They had walked to Dublin, and there had a passage given to them, by the Stranger's Friend Society to Liverpool. Mr. Hall said, thee had no business to come to Liverpool, they ought to have gone to Bristol. They replied, that was the only chance they had of getting to England at all. They were discharged. " WANT A LITTLE Jon.”—Yesterday, at the Police-office, an old man naMed well known in the town, who goes about with ru.scissor grinding apparatus, grinding scissors. Was placed before the magistrates, charged with being drunk and disord , rlY. In'Spei:to . r i<lorle st.iul. tfiii€ oz.') Saturday' afternoon,' as he w.is ru be 1. ;II Londou 7 road. he heard a terrible noise and liaiyitn : : to the Alert. and got up to see what was the - matter. and satv the prisoner coming up the street hallooing. - authnaking a ()rewire; noise. He lold hint to. beapiet, when he stopped, and begati,to abuse him. and Pe was obliged, in order to. get him away,,to dress hiwselt, and . .take' him to Bridewell. The prisoner kept a puolic;-hoto.ie, but during• the day time went about the streets crying" Kokes to grind!" Mr. Hall.—Well, what have you to say ? Prtsouer.—Hear me out, and I'll tell you all about it., I was cumin' -through the street will my bat row, an' where I g o every Saturday, and was hawlite my titles, " Little Job,"Litt le Job,' " Little Job," when he came-out and tok toe; and I'm well known , in the - town, and river iosulted any body, and dtrat•inan told you a big lie. 7 I was brought here about eight years ago fur the same crime, an' I toil 'em it was tin use their bringing me to the magistrates, for they could do nothite to me, I wiS licenced. (A laugh.) Mr Hall.—Was he merely shouting his scissors to grind ? Inspector Morley. —Oh, no; he'was shouting "Halloo !'• singing Jim Crow, and making all sorts of noises. PriSoner.— I cried out, " a little lob." " a little work," ali as. I said was " I caift make 'eta li&tr:" Mr. Hall.— I see by viler manner you have gut it into yotir heat you cannot be fined , and duless you are, you will go on in the swine way. YOu must pay half-a-crown for being drunk, or be commuted foi- one day. Prisoner.—" Sir, if you please sir." Officer,--" Go down." The prisoner, turning up his eyes; ejaculated with a tune of astonishment, as be was tieing put don " calf-a-erown, or be committed one day !" (Laughter.; STREET BEGGlNG.—Yesterdayowo women, ruiner.)-Lamband Ann Owen, were charged before Mr. Hall, With begging in the streets. • Mr. William - Earle stated, that, as lie was, on Sunday, passing along Hope-street, the two prisoners came to bum to beg, and represented theinselYes as in great distress. Ile told them he never gave anything_ in the street, - and gut their ad dress,.and gave a police-officer soon► after instructions to watch them, as they smelt strong of spit its. He afterwards found, that the same women had been begging 'shortly oefore at his house. The policethan stated, that he traced the w 7 isioen to the, 'Roscoe Head public-house, where one of them bad a Oast: ofia - unt tint) the Othet' a glass of gin and peppermint. The prisoner Owen said, Lamb came to her and said site was very oad, end asked bet to go with net to the public-house, where she gave tier " three-ha'- p'orth" of ruin, and had "three-ha'p'orth" of oin herself. They got their living with selling little things. They were each or dered to pay ss. for being, drunk, or be commuted to the Bo rough HOnse of Correction fur three days.— [We have frequent-• ly ourselves semi and been pestered by the same women beg ging ur the.street. It is mistaken charity to relieve such persons in the streets; for in 9 cases out of 10 they are worthless impos tors. It is nut with the street beggar that real distress is to be fouud.] ATTESIPI' TO COMMIT A RAPE.—Yesterday, at the Police oflice, a middle-aged man. mimed Lennon, who is quite blind, was charged with having attempted to commit a rape on a child about Id years of age. The particulaia ale unlit tor pub lication. It appeals that the child had recently come out of the Catholic orphan school, and lived with her aunt, to.. whom the prisoner was paying his addresses. On Thursday week la called at the house of the aunt, who was not at home, and sat down, the niece being in the house knitting. After a time h e proceeded to take toe liberties with the girl which form ed the subject of the present charge. The girl told tier compa nion the day after, alit) on the Monday told her aunt. The reas,u why . the ease had not sootier been brought More the. Magisttates was, that Mr. Gibson, the Catholic priest, had tried to hush up the matter, all the paTtles being Roman •Catholics. Mr. Hall said, he and Mr. Cropper were:of.opinion, that the offence was pi civet], and the prisoner must pay a penalty of £5, including costs, or be committed for two months to gaol; and, further, find hail to keep the peace towaids the complainant, himself in £BO, and two sureties of £lO, and to give '2l hours' notice of bail. THE CHURCH. The queen has been pleased to present the Rev. William. Darwin Fox, M.A., to the rectory of Delainere. in the diocese and county of Chester, void by the resighatiou of the hey. Bernard Minie, the last incumbent. • The Marchioness of Westminster has conferred the living of St. Thomas's Church, Ratcliffe, vacant by the death of the late Rev. Mr. Parkinson, upon the Rev. Mr. Stone, M.A.,.curate of Prestwich. the anther of several works. BRADFORD.-It is in contemplation to erect a new church in some suitable part of this town. Measures to promote this good work have been resolved upon by a committee, and are in active operation. The number of sittings is intended to be not less than twelve hundred. WETHERBir.—There was -a meeting of the inhabitants of Wetherby, on Tuesday week, to consider whether the present chapel of ease should be repaired or a new one built. The latter being agreed upon, a subscription was set on foot for tkratt purpose, and in the space of half an hour near one thousand pounds was subscribed. Froni, the liberal manner in which the inhabitants.caut.e forward, it is to be hoped the landed pro prietors will also manifest their good wishes by a further sub scription. so that a good and substantial church may bewrected, which has been,much wanted a, long time.—)wk. Chronicle. PREFERMENTs. — The Rev. Dr. French, Precbuter of Christ Church, has presented t he liviugof Kitcuilen, diocese of Dublin. to the. Rev. Me..Shertard, void by the death of the Rev. J. Hardy.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Matthew Dawson Duffield one of his Royal Highness's domestic plains.--The Rev. George Anthony Denison, M.A., has been instituted to the vicarage of Broadwinsor, ill the county Of Dorset, void by the death of the Rev l . D.iwland, the last incumbent: patrol'. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.—On the 27th ult.. the Rev. George Couleher, M.A., of *Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, was presented by the Masters rid Fellows of that society to the per petual curacy of St. Benedict, in the town of Cambridge.—On the instant, the Rev. Edward Robert Earle, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge, was instituted, to the tectory of Wardley with Belton, in the county of Rutland, and diocese of Peterborough, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Henry Hodges, on the presentation of the Queen.—Ou Thursday, the 12th instant, the Rev. R. Andrews, M.A., was instituted by the Bishop of Ely to the vicarage of Spaldwick, Huntingdonshire: patron, the Lord Chancellor.—On the 10th instant, the Rev. John Wetherell, M.A., was instituted to the rectory of Rush ton All Saints, with St. Peter's, in the comity of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough. vacant by the death of his father, the Rev. John Laycock Wetherell. ou the presentation of William Williams Hope, Esq., of Rushton-hall.—'The Rev,. James Bradshaw -Tyrwhitt, M.A., has been presenttet : b ft . the rectory of Claxby .Plockacte, in this county, by Henry Dyntoke, Esq., of Scrivelsby.Cuurt, the patron. The consolidaterlivicarav,es of Sutton and Eisey, in the county of Wilts, and deanery of Cricklade, are both now vac a nt by the cession of the Rev. 'Henry Jones Burton, the vicar and rural dean of that deanery, who has been presented to the vicarage of Wicken, in the county of Cambridge.—Dorset Chronicle. NEwcAsTt,t AND CARLISLE RAtt_wAv.—We beg to direct the attention of oar readers to an advertisement In our paper of to-day. announcing the opening of the middle portion of this railway in dune next. The advantages which will result from this arrangement will be found very considerable. APPROPRIATE Pi: ESENT.—Sir Samuel Whalley. previous to leaving England, ,enl, it is said, his whole stock of st ra it waistcoats as a !resent to the leading men among - his late con stituents. M e. 11 UME.—The Kilkenny Journal says. that Mr. Hume's vote against Sir George Strickland's motion " has excited much dissatisfaction among his constituents, who cannot account for the reasons that induced Mtn to go with ministers on. this occasion." Notwithstanding the precaution professed to be:al - opted, more than one lady is said to have been received at court who would not have been received at that of Queen Charlotte ur Queen Adelaide. The' Duke of Richniond Chichester coach was overturned on 'l'ue•dac, at Chittingfield, 'through the reins breaking; 'and lady, i n side passenger, looking out at the moment, the touch fell on her head, and killed her on the spot.— Brigham Ilerald. A "4cllul.A Hoo."—There is now exhibiting, on board a" flat boat, opposite the Custom-house, the largest specimen of pork have that we eve r seen. lie is from the Buck-eye state ;. measures nine feet ten inches from tail to snout ; four feet seven skinim h eis of high and weighs one thosaad si.v hundred poiriids ! His fa:ieculiar u kind and is covered with a thin coat, "each particular hair" of which is as stiff as "the quills upon the fret ful porcu pi ne ," He is very lazy, and loves to lie upon his saw, dust bed; but, when roused to his feet, he "roars like a lion from the swellings of Jordan." If converted into baron, ho would till an entire toncke-house, G and see him ; for he is a hog that, ~ t ake him all in all, we n e ' er s h a ll l oo k upon hi s lik e again.'' New Orleans Pieayane. SOUTH Dtlllll A M.—The coronation of her Majestv being fixed for the 26th of June, and the probability of Mr. Bowes's elevation to the peerage at. that time, determines at once the period wheu the electors of South Durham may be called. upon to elect a knight of the shire, in the room of their preskit hon. member. In this state of affairs, with little inure thau two months fur de cision and organisation, we must continue to impress upon the minds of the conservatives of South Durham the necessity fur prompt action, and for being instantly prepared with .1 suitable candidate, whose character, influence, and talents. winild do jus, Lice to their cause. It is useless funning conservative societies, without an object, and we hope South Durham is now about to be roused to emancipate itself from the degrading thraldom in which whiggery boasts it has v 0 spell-bound it. We shall freely give our zealous labours to the cause, and endeavour to anirnat.: all good conservatives in the' count . v to a hold, unflinching, and. untiring discharge of those important duties, which theirowe• , prosperity, and the safety and honour of the empire, require .of all men who love freedom, alid who deserve to be free,—Sunder land Beacon. , JEWS' ALMS HOUSES AT HAmuu Gumpel, Esq. for merly an eminent merchant of the city of Hamburg, has lately. foundedthere a range of alms houses, for families of the Jew ish persuasion. The different dwellings are tiyhe allotted rent and tax free to such members of the Jewish commuuity as, al though industrious and hard working, any one living oil public charity being excluded, may find it nevertheless difficult to raise their rent. The charity is endowed with the necessary funds to keep it for ever in thorough repair; and should at any time the income exceed the actual necessary expenditure, such surplus is to be laid out in clothing and other necessaries, to be distributed amongst the needy inhabitants of the alms-houses, and the poor in general. Independent of this splendid and lasting monuruent of their benevolence, Mr. Gumpel and his lady have how been known for their great and indiscriminate charily, not confined tee any one sect or religion. Gusiavns Gumpel, E50.,.0t tha firm of G. Gumpel and Co., of this town, is a sou of this gentle man.—Leeds Intelligencer. . . DREADFUL ACCIDENT oN WANSFORD.IIIvER.-011 Thll,lB - morning Mr. Girdiesione, jun., of Stilibmg,ton Hall, tic , companied by Mrs. Wing, the wife of the lieu. J. VI tog, the rector of Thornhaugh, and their ; daughter, Miss Ellen Wing, aged 20, were enjoving - the lieautror the day, in •a pleasure boat on the Nene, near Wansford. There was also It I be boat a Wansford boy, to assist in its management. About half-least 11, when they were at that part of the stream, rather beyond Wansford Staunch, a sodden gust of wind capsized the boat on its tack, and they were all precipitated into the water, which is of a coniideralite depth. The accident was seen from the bridge, and Mr. Compton, of Water Newton, Mr. Clapham, of WansfOrd. Mr. - Charles Haycock, of Stamford, and Mr_ Rawlings, of Wansford, were soon ou the spot and cudeavotung by every means to render assistance. On arriving, they fuundt that. Mr. Girdlestone had reached the shore with the boy, .in a most dreadful state of distraction, but both the ladies had dis appeared. Expressing his opinion that they might still be under the bout which had drifted about 100 yards from the 'soot +, he it first capsized, Mr. Girdlestoile s*nni to it, and LIS! en iitg a rope to the mast, it was hauled to the shore, but, alas! do to. were no signs of the unfortunate lathes. Drags weir tic this - lone procured, and other assistance 01,1,11111 ed, acheo, in about 20 minutes, the body of Miss Wing floated c lose to t s li p e o s t h : n d r i e : and every means were resorted to by Mr Clapham , to restow • animation—but life was . ttuite. extinct. In about 10 mi ni m., • after. Mr. Haycock, whnivas managi,ng the drags,. bo a t in the centre of the au eam, iu trying the hottonviia !tithed the body of the other lady, v. hicit immenitively was lifted into the boat, awl conveyed O n shore; but :ell the means that were used proved also in this ease t o L e a no avail —the vital spark was fled.—Nuititamptint