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iarilaintntani Vrorraiingg. ration in ting of d. He 1 to the to do his ssed or the same e enerntes of ,ed of, and the ebate on a most I Ijourned CONIIIIO D the a sump- e corn ed that ban the return for :Imerica most Insuperable ed trade between would in all like- ar course. c corn l a ws as manu- pine, s hould therefore g ive his England was t h e best protection to the small ction to the people. not because he thought 'ted, but because Theyh they ot hers. ad -e classes , and yet if :station, the poor principles of a of this country the Th e slight improve ,tributed to ill-fonnded our markets in Chinaa. , r e undersold by Russi 1, the malt tax had been is. Was not this most sure ly said by the itry received 50 millions s his 10, for their corn. T It did not go out of the ruse it did do ; it n t o the pockets of idle hat it was impossible to un l es s they considered t cr to all th corn laws, the land the people. Would They could not raise and would they r the purpose of He denied that from the corn laws, The corn scarce .o:otthtehpeacratsoel, uca _ as a reason for main cessary to enable them roro vvhich the farmers a doubled since 1793, le people had gradually r_iii,wed that the corn le patronage .ailed them es had been ters xners in many counties their tenants under ate a P r ' —dal. by out for ai. ".7 - and admitted t conceive a ha d never ,n saYing I arise from the *as no 3 dust reason vidence taken at the at a future period• y read the evidence, IP had been proved. -47 the house ad- rae, and ,TrTzSDAY to inquire into be ll eurrence ten t s had e amendm wade in and Bill) by one house red or agreed to by the .n a bill to amene ating the employ. Aeries. He did no ayes of Lord Ashley no protection agains I Collieries Act was a ad been productive al e to bring —.wing many pfr of wish to interfere with persons were . amend s of agi as to permit to return to seen made out Id a privilege nd ? The re- relief of satisfac- s from trong 1 be made to elevate the female chat-sett T. which was chiefly the object of the law, and opposed the I notion. Mr. C. BRUCE replied, and on a eliv. ision his motion was defeated by a majority of 137 to 23'- Sir C. NAPIER. brought the state of the naval lists under the consideration of the house, and es atended that a naval officel• should be placed at the heed of the Board of Ad miralty. If the Government would ut 3t agree to his sug gestion he would next press upon them the necessity of re sorting to the practice in the reign of Queen Anne of ap- • pointing a Lord High Admiral. This a light he done with great satisfaction to the public in the pen on of Prince Albert, and he might have an experienced naval officer to assist him in the performance of the duties oft he office. He also suggested that the older officers should retire earlier than they now do, in order to make room fc r the promotion of young men to be admirals and vice-ad mirals, while more efficient for the duties than they could be at a later period of life. The gallant officer concluded by a .motion in accord ance with the views he had stated. Lord INGESTRE seconded the motion. Sir R. PEEL said he should be very sorry to lay down as a rule that no naval officer should be appointee 1 as First Lord of the Admiralty ; still, on the other hand, he . should be equally sorry to establish a rule restricting the sovert ign in the choice of a person to fill that station to officers in the navy. He hoped the house would support him in re tisting a motion which would incur to the country an expenditure of £20,000 I J. RUSSELL said it was impossible that the House of s could with advantage place itself in 'the position of live. To agree to this motion would be to establish convenient precedent, and he hoped, therefore, his gallant friend would not press it to a div ision. NAPIER declined to press his motion to .a division; er orders of the day being disposed of, the house THE CORN LAWS THE DIVISION ON R MR. VILLIERS ' MOTION FO REPE. The following statement exhibits the distribution of the votes ou the question—" That this house will resolve itself into a committee for the purpose of considering the duties affecting the importation of foreign corn, , with a view to, t h e i r immediate abolition." Ayes , 125 ; Noes, 381; 31aictr1tz against it, 256. FOR THE MOTION OF REPEAL. - 21 34 15 2 - 51 To MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS. The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—•is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased .and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst .those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability .to do justice to the interests committed to their care. Ebt Ziberpool &tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 18 43 We have always maintained—because we know the party—that the agitation, got up professedly against the educatioNal clauses of the Factory Bill, was, in reality, directed against those clauses which restrict the hours of infant labour. That the great portion of dissenting millowners care one straw about the con sciences (!) of the poor little creatures who toil in their factories is, to any one acquainted with the social con dition of the manufacturing districts, about as pre posterous a notion as can well be conceived. Why, we doubt whether one in ten of the millowners know even the persons of their own workpeople! And at for any extraordinary care for their moral welfare, or their peculiar religious opinions, we are quite satisfied that the state of repair of the least important wheel or shaft which drives their spindles or power-looms,, is looked to with infinitely more anxiety than the health, moral or physical, of the human beings whose hands tend its revolutions. The increase or decrease of the payments noted in the wage-book is an object of tender interest ; but the increase or decrease of the sum of happiness of those employed does not, we fear, enter into the contemplation of two out of three of the very philanthropic people who are just now professing such anxious solicitude for—their religious liberties! The religious liberties of factory children (1)—of the poor slaves of the loom or the spindle, who have scarcely a knowledge that there is a God, who made them and who died for them That we have not been in error as to the real nature of this opposition to Sir James Graham's measure, notwithstanding the sectarian cant in which it has been clothed, will not be greatly doubted by our readers, after the perusal of the following, which fell from the lips of an eminent Leaguer and Quaker, at a meeting of millowners, held in London last week : " He had heard much of the agitation about the factory question. He could say it did not prevail in his district. He recollected a person connected with those who desired legislative interference with factory labour visited it, and called a meeting upon the subject. The room in which it was held was, however, not half filled, and the lecturer himself was Laughed at. He begged to say,there was not that agita tion in the manufacturing districts which the accounts in the London journals would lead many to believe there was. At one meeting at Manchester the chairman was a porter on the railway. In his neighbourhood they did not want any tinkering legislative interference. Legislative interference in the matter had hitherto been injurious, and it was looked upon as no better than political quackery. He thought that the majority of either house of parliament were among the very last fitted to bring forward any sensible plan for the settlement of a question on which they were necessarily ignorant. He was opposed to a ten hours' bill, and believed all legislation on this subject was wrong." This gentleman does not want any " tinkering legis lative interference" between the employer and his wretcked and demoralised slaves ! This exemplary Quaker, so emphatic in his appeals to Scripture when denunciating the iniquity of the corn laws, esteems " all legislation wroL, K .• t{,,• to prevent greedy capitalists working children of tender years for fourteen or fifteen hours per day in the heated atmosphere of their factories ! It is "tinkering legislation" to say to a millowner—You shall not work the eyes, the bones, the sinews, the blood, and the very souls of infants into cotton cloth! It is " wrong " (!) that these Liberal gentlemen should not be permitted to buy and sell little children, and build more factories and more villa s out of the gains of a traffic so inhuman ! To the credit of the millowners and others, before whom this speech was delivered, we observe that it was received with pretty general disgust —so unequivo cally expressed, indeed, that any gentleman less sensi tive than the utterer, must inevitably have felt the unenviable nature of his position. " Mr. Kay was surprised at such language. He must say that factory legislation had done a good deal of good, and those who bore in mind that 13, 14, and 15 honrs' work daily had been endured by those employed in factories, would admit this." (Hear, hear.) " Mr. Walker also deprecated the remarks. Surely it was too much to call that tinkering legislation, which sought to promote the eternal welfare of the factory children." (Hear.) " Mr. J. Milne, of Oldham, had never heard a speech from his friend with more pain than the one he had just ad dressed to them. He did not expect such a speech from him." Pretty decisive condemnation this, when it is con sidered that the titterers of it are millowners. And yet, it is to the leading of such men as this asserter of the right of employers to work their infant labourers without restriction as to time, that men of religious professions, and many, no doubt, of religious conviction, are content to commit themselves ! The plea of conscience it is, forsooth, which is set up I The real question at issue is, whether the children of our working classes are to be sacrificed, body and soul, here and hereafter, to manufacturing cupidity I We observe that a correspondent of the London Times, remarking upon the recent seizure of goods belonging to Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., sug gests that considering " the serious loss experienced by our manufacturers from the bonding of foreign goods, and their exportation hence in our ships to South America and our colonies," the goods com prised in the shipment in question, previous to their being given up by the Customs' authorities, " should be stamped United States manufacture,' as a guard against their being purchased abroad as of English make." And he adds, that " the grand evil of foreign goods exported in bond from this country, and pur porting to be of British fabrics, has been long and seriously felt." We have no fault to make with this suggestion ; but, we may ask, would it not he well for British ma nufacturers and traders themselves to commence a sys tem of honesty with respect to the brands and de scription of their goods ? It is scarcely possible to pass along our own streets without seeing the most palpable deceit attempted to be practised, by the ven dors of all descriptions of commodities; and, were an uninformed person to judge from marks and descrip tions merely, he would inevitably arrive at the con clusion that nothing that is English is fit to wear or eat ! Our boot and shoemakers are selling French boots and shoes—made in Northampton ; our hatters Parisian hats, made not a hundred miles from Oldham or Stockport ; our drapers French silks, which have not even the advantage of having been smuggled ; French gloves which no contrabandist has imported ; and French ribbons, the bulk of which Coventry has the questionable credit of having fabricated ! We call this a very disreputable system—very unworthy of a Bri tish tradesman, and very prejudicial to our character as a manufacturing people—inasmuch as it is an in direct confession that our boasted productions are in ferior to those of other nations, and such as we do not condescend to use ourselves! But we are told that the imitation, by foreigners, of our dishonest example, and the branding of their goods with English brands, "has long been felt as a great evil." In some descriptions of goods, no doubt, this may be the case. We doubt whether, in cotton goods —plain cottons, at least, such as those referred to— English " would be a recom such goods the advantages of our colonial markets, that such a course is adopted, we admit the evil—the fraud upon the colonial revenues being a portion of it. But is it a fact, we ask, that the American manu facturers can, upon any thing approaching to equal terms, compete with us in these markets? Can the manufacturers of Lowell, sending their goods by the circuitous route of Great Britain, undersell us in South America, or the East or West Indies? It would ap pear that they can ; and we ask, with all proper deference, whether, if such be the fact, it does not present to us a new feature in the anti•corn-law con troversy which is raging around us ? With a system of free trade in corn and sugar we can expect, of course, no exemption in favour of our goods from the duties levied in our colonies upon the goods of other producing countries. The United States manufacturer will no longer have occasion to send his goods round by Great Britain, in order to procure their admission into a British colonial market. How, then, are British manufacturers to be the better enabled to meet their opponents in these markets, un less it be that cheap bread and cheap sugar are very in timately connected with CHEAP LABOUR? It may serve the purpose of our anti-monopolists to pr o t es t that no such connexion exists—that they have no such operation in view. They may juggle a few dupes by their protestations ; but we defy them to convince any reasoning men of their sincerity ! LET THEM TRY. Our contemporary of the Manchester Guardian, if no other champion step forward, will, no doubt, be able to reconcile this matter to his own perfect satis faction, if not to that of the rest of the world. We observe that, in his last publication, he has got hold of what he conceives to be a convincing proof that cheap corn and cheap labour are not at all connected with each other. The proof in question consists in the fact that, the price of bread being low at present, a certain firm in Bolton—Messrs. Hornby and Co.—are ad vancing their rate of wages. Ergo, maintains the Guardian, the price of food has nothing to do with the price of labour. In the abstract; we certainly never said that it had. Cheap bread, the result of productive harvests, we have always conceived to be more likely to advance than to reduce the price of labour. But cheapness of bread, produced by any policy which is calculated to increase the supply of labourers,—cheap.. ness of food, produced by the destruction or diminution of agricultural employments,—will not only reduce the price of labour, but is intended so to do ; and what is more, the Guardian is perfectly aware of the fact ! We do not feel ourselves impelled to inflict upon our readers any lengthy remark upon the five-act per formance—(tragedy, comedy, or farce ? we know not which)—concluded on Monday night in the House of Commons. A dull subject would no doubt provoke a dull comment; and the somewhat dreary weather, with which we have been visited for the past few days, has not, we should imagine, enamoured our readers, any more than ourselves, with that description of mental food, which is calculated to produce nausea instead of invigorating and elevating the spirits. A running commentary upon the snap pish impertinencies of Mr. Cobden ; an attempt to precipitate the solid matter, contained in a frothy oration from that very superficial person, Mr. C. P. Villiers, or to whip into liveliness the heavy mo notony of a speech from Mr. Joseph Brotherton, might be tolerated at a time when the mind or the temper required a sedative ; but with our present somewhat depressed atmosphere, and animal and men tal energies, we shall spare ourselves and our readers the probable consequences of the infliction. We do this the more readily because of the convic tion, which it is impossible to shut out, that the cause of the League is quite an impracticable one within the walls of either house of Parliament. Unlike all other ultimately successful party movements, the Anti-Corn law movement evidently makes no progress in the legislature. True it is-that the division. on the present occasion shews a minority of 125 in favour of the mo tion of the member for Wolverhampton, or rather ostensibly in its favour. True it is, also, that the number in the minority last year was only 90. But it is acknowledged that of this 125 a considerable num ber, like Lord Howick and Mr. E. Buller, would to morrow vote for a fixed duty, and repudiate, as strongly as any ministerialist, the wild project of total repeal; and we challenge all the wise people of the Anti-Mono- F uly or the League itself, to point to the accession to the League party in the House of Com mons, of one member, whose opinion is worth a rush upon this or any other great question ! The Anti- Corn-law question may be decided by agitation and clamour out of doors ; it can never be decided, against England and her domestic agriculture, by dispassionate argument within the walls of Parliament. Upon one trifling episode, which enlivened the dull ness of Monday night's debate, we may remark. That most amusing and consistent person—Mr. Thos. Milner Gibson—we observe, by the reported proceed ings, took occasion to remonstrate (!) with the gallant member for Liverpool—Sir Howard Douglas —for presuming to speak and vote against the motion before the house, when his constituents, to the number of 36,000, had petitioned for total repeal It would have been very rash, we admit, if Sir Howard Douglas had slighted, as Mr. Gibson accused him of doing, the opi nions of so large a portion of the bona fide inhabitants of the borough which he represents. But we can in form the hon. gentleman that the member for Liverpool did no such thing. Sir Howard preferred the legitimately expressed, and repeatedly expressed, opinions of this community, to those of the busy and factious clique, who got up the petition in question, with its fictitious and trumpery signatures ; and this was " the head and front of his offending." Old generals, like the mem ber for Liverpool, are not to be caught by Mr. Milner Gibson's chaff, or that of any other anti -monopolist. The extra-branch of the legislature, to whose sittings in Palace-yard we briefly called attention in our last, met on Tuesday ; and, amongst other doings, pro pounded. their plans for carrying the " total and un conditional repeal of the Corn-laws." The nature of these may be best arrived at from the following reso lution : " RESOLV,ED, That this Conference recommends the League forthwith to commence a registration of the electors of the kingdom, in order to be prepared, at the earliest possible period, to call upon the Queen's advisers, through the constitutional means of a humble (qy. dictatorial) memorial to her Majesty, to dissolve the present Parliament, and thus afford to the electors of the kingdom an opportunity of revising their late decision upon the question of the Corn-law." Their subsequent steps are best described in the language of the arch-agitator, Mr. Cobden, himself. " If the members of the League did their duty in their several localities, in registering their friends as electors" —the payment of their rates is, we suppose, a part cf the scheme—" they might have a dissolution of Par liament in less than twelve months! If they got a sufficient number of electors registered, and addressed the Queen, a minority (in Parliament) could do one thing for them—they could, by obstructing the business of the House, compel the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament." (!) A pretty comprehensive scheme this ; but there are one or two things required to en sure its successful accomplishment, upon which Mr. Cobden calculate s a little too confidently. There is an assumption that the great body of the community may not, in the mean time, get tired of t ht. antics of his confederacy of mountebanks ; there is an assumption that the classes sought to be juggled may not, in the mean time, acquire sufficient clairvoyance (if we may, in speaking of such a body as the League, use the jargon of a kindred quackery), to see through the de ception; and there is the question to be solved whether the legislature itself, backed as it will be by the right minded portion of the people, will submit to have the public business " obstructed" by any factious minority of its members. The forms of Parliament are no doubt sufficiently expansive, at present, to permit of such an operation being successfully accomplished, when its object is merely to prolong a debate for ano ther night or another week; but such an " obstruc tion" as may be required to coerce the Crown and the Government to dissolve Parliament, is a different affair altogether, and may not be so very safe an achieve. ment. Besides, we suspect thatsonae of the gentlemen of the League minority may not be quite so anxious to go before their constituents as the I3obadil of Stock -the pa rt supposes ! Whatever my be the degrca of fcAsibilitY, (Mr, iipgq Ig o ; Haw Qfhotqp of lit() philosophers, the duty of Conservatives is evident. The efforts of the faction must he met. The registra tion, both in the counties and in boroughs, must be looked to at once, with all the anxiety and vigilance which would be displayed were the emergency one of less remote probabilities. We trust we need not urge this duty upon the " good men and true" of this Con servative town! In connexion with the appeal which we have made from time to time to Conservatives to throw off the lethargy with which they have hitherto regarded the agitation of the League, we are happy to see that the agricultural body are at length about to assume a de fensive posture, and hare provided themselves with an organ—The British Lion—which is prepared to meet their opponents, and contest their cause their EXISTENCE, we might say—foot to foot. With every consideration for the existing Conservative organs, the seditious inroads now making by the League into the agricultural districts of the country, fully justify the establishment of a journal devoting itself entirely to the task of tracking and exposing every falsehood which issues from the fertile workshop of that body; and we wish our new contemporary every success in his proposed duty. The following is a specimen of the nervous style of our contemporary : " We consider it peculiarly incumbent on the landowners, farmers, and every person connected with the agricultural in terest, rc.-Jolutely to prepare for the approaching struggle. Our enemies have actively marshalled their multitudinous forces, and sedulously collect the sinews of war in various districts of the country. They received during this year of Anti-Corn-law agitation, upwards of SIXTY THOUSAND POUNDS!!! Such sum has been expended, forsooth, in adopting every scheme, and promoting every object for which the Leaguers —as Cobden lately remarked—are banded toge ther, viz. " a total, immediate, and unconditional repeal of the Corn-laws," or, in other words, the abolition of every regulation, whereby any protection is afforded to British agriculture. " No doubt can be entertained respecting the desperate attempt which the Anti-Corn-law League are making for the accomplishment of their baneful and destructive machin ations. They have been congregating, for several months, large assemblages of the people in this metropolis, and throughout the country, whilst their itinerant lecturers daily promulgate the most fallacious statements among reckless, ignorant, and unreflecting audiences. Besides, other parties have been engaged to write, and newspapers are extrava gantly remunerated for inserting discontented and inflamma tory communications, in furtherance of the schemes devised by members and partisans of the Anti-Corn-law League. Nothing but an abolition of every measure, which gives the slightest protection to farmers and landowners, or, in more appropriate language, the destruction of British agriculture itself, will satisfy these factious individuals. If suffered to accomplish their perilous designs, would not the most fatal consequences and greatest ruin unquestionably befal the landowners of England, whose privileges must be thereby seriously abridged, and properties inevitably destroyed? " Under such circumstances, we consider the landed in terest imperiously required, in self-defence, to adopt such measures as will protect their rights, and counteract the ap palling evils projected by their opponents. Never was there such an important crisis. Every rank and class of society should UNITE, in order to maintain the agricultural power and prosperity of England. Is not domestic agriculture the sheet-anchor of our national prosperity and tranquillity ? Nay, more, was not the cultivation of the soil likewise the foundation of our greatness? Would not our condition, then, appear paltry, debased, and contemptible, if every species of protection were abolished ? Would not the inhabitants of this once agricultural England--raised to the highest rank among the nations of the world—be obligated to depend upon foreign countries for the products which are now obtained from our own soil at home ? In periods of peace, would not such a system cripple and depress British landowners, farmers, and husbandmen ? whilst in times of war, would it not reduce this country to servile dependence on the whims and caprices of antagonist nations, for the actual supplies whereon to subsist ? " Whilst noticing these topics, we cannot more appositely introduce some observations propounded by Mr. Van Buren, late President of America. Considering the encouragement of agriculture, as the best means for promoting the strength and wealth of a great nation, he thus eloquently addressed the Congress :—` Especially have we reason to rejoice in the exuberant harvests, which have lavishly recompensed well directed industry, and given to it that sure reward which is vainly sought in visionary speculations. I cannot indeed view without peculiar satisfaction the evidence afforded by the past season, of the benefits that spring from the steady devotion of the husbandman to his honourable pursuit. No means of individual comfort is more certain, and no source of national prosperity is so sure. Nothing can compensate a people for a dependence upon others for the bread they eat; and that cheerful abundance, on which the happiness of every one so much depends, is to be looked for nowhere with such sure reliance as in the industry of the agriculturists and the bounties of the earth.' Ought not such remarks, emanating from this distinguished foreigner, to make a suitable impression in favour of encouragement and pro tection to our domestic agriculture? " However, we cannot conclude the present observations without invoking the Peerage, the Gentry, and the Farmers of England immediately to apply themselves, with vigour and determination, for the purpose of preserving their existent rights and properties. Unless active measures of co-opera tion be speedily adopted, will not our opponents proceed un checked in their ominous machinations? Must not disas trous effects ensue, if these " bold, bad men" unfortunately succeed, by their audacious wickedness, in annihilating the resources of agriculturists, but, infinitely worse, were they to abolish British agriculture itself ? Ought not, the Landed Interest, therefore, to arouse from torpor and inaction? Disregarding the slanders of their enemies, and contemning the apathy of certain lukewarm persons, ought they not boldly to resolve to pursue a course which, if duly devised, must prove not only beneficial to themselves, their families, and their posterity, but also peculiarly advantageous to the peace, welfare, and happiness of these realms ?" ENGLAND WALLS SCOTLAND IRELAND Craig, W. G. Crawford, W. S. Dolmen)+, Lord Dashwood, G. H. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Pulsford , R. Rice, E. R. Roche, Sir D. Roebuck, J. A. Ross, D. R. _ Ellice, E. Ellice, E. (St. Andrew's) Fleetwood, Sir P. H. Forster, M. Fox, C. R. Russell, Lord E Scott, R. Scrope, G. P. Seale, Sir J. H. Smith, V. Gisborne, T. Grey, Sir G. Grosvenor, Lord R. Ilayter, W. G. Holland, R. He called upon Howick, Viscount rere always the I Hume, J. sc cases the Standish, C. Stanton, W. H. Townely. J. Tnfnell, H. Turner, E. `Vivian, J. 11. the better , rn . It TORS rough the pod that they rcturing dii- food dear to the f Tr. Villiers e Towns- ordships house (123.) THE "DUCHESS OF SUSSEX." to advar. I 72. Original and al at the I Total against the motion .. .. 381 The followfng whigs voted in the majority on this eines tion _ . ....,_. Baring, F. T. Hatton, Captain Villiers Cavendish, C. C. (Youghal) Heathcote. G. J. (Rutland- Cavendish, G. H. (Derby- shire) shire) Howard, Lord (Shaftesbury) Colborne, W. N. R. Howard, P. H. (Carlisle) Curteis, H. B. Labouchere, H. Dawson, T. V. Lemon, Sir C. Drax, J. S. W. S. E. O'Brien, W. S. Ebrington, Viscount O'Conor Don. Esmonde, Sir T. Ogle, J. C. H. French, F. Redington, T. N. Gill, T. Russell, Lord J. The following members ♦oted in the minority on Monday last, who did not vote last year upon this question : Barnard, E. G. Jervis, J. Berkeley, C. Langston, J. H. Browne, W. (Kerry) Layard, Capt. Buller, C. Macauley, T. B. Buller. E. Maule, Fox Chapman, B. Morison, Gen. Christie, W. D. Pschell, Capt. Clive, E. B. Ponsonby, J. G. Collett, J. (Athlone) Ponsonby, Hon. C. F. Corbally, M. E. .. (Poole)._ FORMER DIVISION ON THE CORN LAWS 1843, March 14.—" That a committee be appointed to in quire whether there were any peculiar burdens affecting the landed interest." (Mr. Ward.)—Ayes, 133; Noes, 232. 1842, March 14.—A similar motion to the above. (Mr. Ward.)—Ayes. 115 ; Noes, 230. _ awetiLlum..4, U puzva LU t 1 but in favour of a fixed duty. (Lord J. Russell.)—Ayes, 226 ; Noes, 349. _ _ March 9.—For the second reading of Sir R. Peel's Corn Importation Bill.—Ayes, 284; Noes, 176. Feb. 21.—" That all duties on corn, grain, &c., do cease and determine." (Mr. Villiers.)—Ayes, 90 ; Noes, 1840, May 26.—" That this house will resolve itself into committee to take into consideration the duties on foreign corn." (Mr. Villiers.)—Ayes, 177 ; Noes, 300: 1839, March 18.—Similar motion to the above. (Mr. Vil liers.)—Ayes, 196 ; Noes, 342. 1838, March 15.—Ditto. (Mr. Villiers.)—Ayes, 95 ; Noes, 1837, March 16.—T0 admit foreign corn into Great Britain at a fixed duty.—Ayes, 89 ; Noes, 223. By an inaccuracy in the votes this number slightly :s from the numbers declared by the tellers in the As the fact is becoming a matter of general discussion that, in the event of the death of the King of Hanover and of the Crown Prince, his son, the question of the title of Sir Augus tus D'Este to the throne of that kingdom will create some controversy, the following letter from her Royal Highness (the Countess of Amelan - a) to Sir S. J. Dillon, will not be uninteresting. It is dated so long since as December 16, 1811. " My Dear Sir,—l wished to have answered your last letter, but having mislaid your first, I did not know how to direct to you. I am sure you must believe that lam de lighted with your pamphlet ; but I must confess I do not think you have stated the fact quite exactly, when you say (page 25) 'that the question is at rest between me and the Duke of Sussex, because the connexion has not only been declared illegal by the sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court, but has been dissolved by consent—that I have agreed to abandon all claims to his name,' &c. Now, my dear air, had I believed the sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court to be any thing but a stretch of power, my girl would not have been born. Lord Thurlow told me my marriage was good abroad —religion taught rue it was good at home, and not one decree of any powerful enemy could make me believe otherwise, nor ever will. By refusing me a subsistence they have forced me to take a name—not the Duke of Sussex's—but they have not made me believe I have no right to his. My children and myself were to starve, or I was to obey, and I obeyed; but lam not convinced. Therefore, pray don't call this 'an act of mutual consent,' or say, the question is at rest.' The moment my son wishes it, I am ready to declare that it was debt, imprisonment, arrestation, necessity, (force like this, in short,) which obliged me to seem to give up my claims, and not my conviction of their fallacy. When the banns were published in the most frequented church in London, and where all the town goes, is not that a permission asked ? And why were they not forbid? I believe my marriage at Rome good ; and I shall never feel ' the question at rest' till this is acknowledged. Prince Augustus is now sent to Jersey, as Lieutenant D'Este in the 7th Fusiliers. Before be went he told his father he had no objection to go under any name they chose to make him take; but that he knew what he was, and the time, he trusted, would come, when himself would see e , justi * ce do * ne to * his * mottr sister, and his own birth. We have been informed that a letter from Mr. Colquhoun bag been received by the Glasgow deputation, stating that at a n official interview he had been informed that her Majesty's com missioner was instructed to announce to the General Assembly the measure which Goverament has in contempla tion, and which must, of course, be in conformity with the views enunciated in the House of Lorde by Lord Aberdeen. —Glasgow Herald. CUSTOM -HOUSE FRAUDS.—In the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, an information was tried at the suit of the cus toms' department against Messrs. Chas. Canty and Co. ex tensive silk importers at Watling-street, London, who were charged with receiving two cases of silk on the 3rlJuly, 1840, and three other cases on the 14th August, 1840, without pay ment of the full amount of duty. After evidence had been gone into on the part of the Crown, and for the defendants, the jury returned a verdict for the Crown, with single da mages of .£2OOO. This is, in effect, for the Crown, of dll.OO, as the damages are trebled by statute. THE REPEAL AGlTATlON.—Minister ' s declarations re specting repeal of the Irish union were the subject of an adjourned meeting of the Dublin Repeal Association on Thursday, and of much heated language; Mr. O'Connell called Sir Robert Peel an " audacious miscreant ;" he tbanlod the paltry Whigs, the Marquis of Lansdowne and Spring Lice. (Loud laughter.) Then these was that most paltry, despicable, and contem ot ptible d politician—the News paper Henry Brougham—(prracte groans)—treacherous to his friends, flattering and servile to his enemies. He was disgraceful to the law ; he had talent of a high order, but his mean and contemptible selfishness carried him beyond all hounds of honour or decency—no road was too filthy for him Ice to power. He was rejoiced that such a despicable man was the enemy of the Irish people. ADJOURNMENT V. DIVISION. —The following is the des cription given in the " Notes and Proceedings in the House of Commons," of the extraordinary scene on Saturday morn ing :—" Saturday, May I3.—Motion made, and question ,roposed, ' that the debate be now adjourned ;' whereupon, lotion made and question proposed, ' that this house do now djourn'—motion, by leave, withdrawn. Question put, ' that ie debate be now adjourned ;' the house divided—ayes 94, )es 385. • Original question again proposed ; debate arising ; )tion made, and question put ' that the debate be now ad irned " the House divided—ayes 80, noes 273, Original .stion again proposed : debate arising ; motion made and stion proposed, 'that the debate be now adjourned ;' reupon motion was made, and question, ' that this House I: o o s u e s d e : di r vided—ayes 78, - adjourn'—put and negatived. Question put, ' that • - now adjoff ., r , n ,. e . d ti( ;: n the e ro lehate arising : -vithdrasvn ---) mutation of bolo *Chef 0- Mg/4On" if it la far :hp pofpoco Qr flooring fpr ENGLAND Counties 3 80r0ugh5...... WALES. 96 Counties . Boroughs SCOTLAND. Counties Boroughs IRELAND Counties Boroughs . . •• Total for the motion ..... AGAINST THE MOTION Counties ... Boroughs... Universities Counties . Boroughs. Counties . Boroughs Counties . . Boroughs.. University - 288 16 5 - 21 17 4 LOCAL NEIV.I. The races at Aintree, for this year;take place on the 18th July and the 21st September. CHESTER. — Visitors to Chester this season, in want of a comfortable hotel, should go to the Nag's Head Inn. There they will find the best accommodation and cheer. The London Assurance Corporation is having a fire engine of the best and newest construction, built by Messrs. Mer ryweather, the great fire engine builders, of London, ex pressly for the, township of Bi r k en h ea d , an d h undred of Wir ral. We understand it will take two months yet to complete it. TILE FACTORY EDUCATION BILL—A crowded meeting of the Evangelical Dissenters was held in Great George's. street Chapel last night, for the purpose of expressitg their decided objection to the Factories Education Bill in its present state. Dr. Raffles presided, and the chief speaker was Mr. Thomas Blackburn. AN ORIGINAL.—The following notice was handed the other day to Mr. Palmer, special high constable of the hun dred of Wirral :—" to magestrets gentlemen, this to Imforme you that J T— Contaberl of the of did 31 De cernber padrowl the Roads From Peter Nichol's to Woodchurch With Districte Constabel til A leate houre of the Nite beaing Informed the Whas Two Bad Carectors Lurking in the Roads." DEATH OF MRS. DR. RAFFLES.—W e regret to state that the death of this lady, wife of the celebrated Independent preacher, f Liverpool, took place at New Brighton, whither she had gone for the benefit of her health, on Tuesday last. She had been labouring under disease of the heart for some time past, but no fatal result was anticipated from it by her friends, to whom her death was awfully sudden.—[We take this paragraph from the Morning Herald of yesterday ; but, as we understand from our reporter that the Doctor was present at the anti-education meeting last night, the state ment of the death of his lady must, we presume, be in correct.] THE PRINCE'S PART.-At the dinner at the Town-hall, on Wednesday week, the Mayor, in proposing the health of Mr. Richard V. Yates, paid that gentleman a very handsome compliment on the public spirit which he had shown in form, at his own expense, so handsome an ornament to the town as the Prince's Park. The sentiments expressed by the Mayor were very cordially received by the company, and Mr. Yates, in returning thanks, expressed himself highly gratified with the notice which his worship arid the company had taken of his new enterprise, and he said he trusted that it would afford his fellow-townsmen all the pleasure and re creation which the company anticipated from it. ACCIDENTAL DEATH OP A MATE ON BOARD SHIP.—An inquest was.held yesterday, before Mr. Statham, the Deputy Coroner of the borough, on view of the body of George Benjamin Ward. The deceased who was 23 years of age, was second mate of the barque Mysore, now lying in the Prince's-dock, taking in cargo. On Wednesday morning the deceased was down in the hold superintending the stowing of the goods, which were taken in at the main hatchway, and lowered by a winch. The men above had slung a large case containing a marble tomb-stone, when at once it fell down upon the deceased. Several men who were in the hold ran to him immediately, and found that his head was completely flattened, and that he was otherwise much injured. He gave one moan, and died i nstant l y. The weight of the case was shout six or seven hundred weight. It appeared from other evidence that the package fell in consequence of the pulls of the winch having either Slipped, or remained up without falling in the wheel, so that the man who bad hold of the tackle fall (which was wound round the upper barrel of the winch as a break) could not hold in such a weight, and it went down by the run. The manner of lowering the case was that usually adopted in vessels, but one of the witnesses considered that it would have been safer to lower such a weight by the han dles of the winch, the machine being at the same time pro perly at tended t o , so that the package would be slowly Two of the witnesses stated that the winch had safely l owered heavier packages on the same morning and on the previous da y, and that it appeared to be a good winch and in good order. It came out from the mate, however, that the man who had held the rope to louver the case had, by mistake, taken his lowering turn round the upper barrel the barr e l , and rende of the w i nch in the wrong way, so as'to reverse the motion of r the A great d ea l of evidence was gone into, and the ship visited, pulls of no eff ec t i n s t opp i ng it. to ascertain the fact, which was satisfactorily shown to the Jury to be the case. The man himself fixed .a string round two round pieces of wood, to show the mariner in which lie had taken his turn of the tackle fill, showing that he had evidently fallen into the mistake stated, and hence the acci dent. Some of the stone was inscribed with an epitaph. The coroner gummed up, pc, , intin,ct out the law as AtiectlK the °441! the )4{i ro4ltrpf4 19F0i0 of if APoidentildt4o," AMPHITHEATRt..—The late Mr. Ducroces company and stud are attracting very fair houses at the Amphitheatre. There are some excellent equestrians amongst those engaged. Le Petit Darrow is a clever little fellow ; his style partakes of that of the late Maestro in fearless agility and graceful riding. Mr. Rockwell, an amusing " droll," who often caused much laughter here when attached to the American company, is engaged for a few nights. A very good piece, called the " High Mettied Racer," has been brought out. " George and the Dragon" is about to be produced for Mrs. Hillier's benefit. SINGING.—We perceive that Mr. F. Shrivall, who has for the last two seasons occupied, with much credit to himself and gratification to the audiences, the position of Lenore at the Theatre-Royal, announces his intention of devoting his talents to giving instruction in singing. We believe several pupils are under his tuition at present, and when it is gene rally known that he is prepared to impart instruction in a science in which he is so well qualified, there is no doubt he will be able to number a large class. Those who wish to become proficients in the art divine cannot do better than place themselves under him ; his private testimonials of ability are very strong ; and all who have heard him sing in public will admit his claims for support. At present in Li verpool there are very few good teachers, and Mr. Shrivall's entering into the lists as a candidate for patronage will be, no doubt, hailed with satisfaction. ROWLEY'S I _ 3 ATENT CENTRIFUGAL PUMP. - -Several ex periments with one of these pumps have been made at the Canal Basin during the present week, at one of which we were present. The machine is extremely compact, being only 12 inches in diameter, and 5 in width, but was capable, when worked by three men, of lifting about 60 gallons of water per minute, or of projecting a stream from a °ranch of a three-quarter inch bore to a distance of from 70 to 75 fset. There are no valves in the machine, it being worked by an eccentric groove, nor is any air box required, as the lift ing of the water is so continuous as to cause one stream of undiminished force throughout. The cost of these pumps is, we learn, from £2-1 to £25; and of a fire-engine on the same principle (the rotatory), to be worked by twelve men, complete, with tanks, &c., about .£lOO. One of these en gines, the manufacturers, Messrs. John Coatman and Son, of Manchester, will warrant to throw a stream to a height of 160 feet—a height that almost doubles that which the ordi nary fire-extinguishing engines in this town can attain. Messrs. Coatman and Son are now manufacturing one of this description for the Manchester establishment of the West of England Fire Insurance Company. The pumps similar to that now exhibiting are intended to be applied, as well as in cases of tire, to ships' pumps, not having that lia bility to choke that the common valve pumps have, and pos sessing the advantage of the power of projecting water with sufficient force to wash the decks effectually, thus doing away with the ordinary mode of washing decks with buckets. SUICIDE OF A FEMALE.—An inquisition was held yester day before Mr. Statham, the deputy coroner, on view of the body of Jane Lucas, a married female, aged 37 years, and the case excited considerable interest in the court. The fol lowing are the principal portions of the evidence. Elizabeth Halsall, a child of ten years old, who lived with her sisters, bonnet-makers, in Limekiln-lane, said she knew the de ceased, who lived at the opposite house. On Tuesday after noon last, deceased sent one of her little girls for her. She went, and deceased asked her what her sisters cleaned bon nets with,—to which she replied, " oxalic acid." Deceased then said she wanted to clean her little boy's hat, and her own bonnet, and gave her twopence, telling her to get swine of the stuff at the druggist's for her. Witness had been in the habit of going for it for her sisters, and she went to Mr. Dean's, druggist, and being known at the shop, was served by the young man, who wrote " poison" on the paper. She gave it to the deceased.—James Lucas, husband of the de ceased, (who appeared to be much affected,) said he was a file manufacturer, and his wife (the deceased) also kept a small provision shop. He saw her between five and six o'clock on Tuesday afternoon last, and she was then much excited. She might have had a little drink, but was not much excited from that cause. They owed a quarter's rent, and the landlord had put the officers into the house some days previously, but had withdrawn them on an arrangement being made. Ile gave up some property as security. They returned again on Friday, and agreed to take the fixtures for the rent, and that he should take away his furniture and stock. They came again. The house was taken in deceased's name, who said she had no objection to their taking them if they would wait till dark, but they wished to take them there and then. Deceased then told the landlord's wife, who was with them, that if they took them out she would not live to see them. 'Witness then went out to get a settlement made through the assistance of his brother-in-law, and was absent about half-an-hour. On his return he was told by his little daughter that the deceased had taken poison, which had been brought to her by a little girl. He went to Mr. Dean's, and that gentleman went with him to several places for a medical man to attend deceased, and finally found Mr. Ackerly, who went with him, but on reaching the house where deceased was, they found her dead. Witness stated that deceased was not much addicted to drink, though he had known her to be intoxicated a little occasionally. She was liable to be very passionate, and when i n th a t state was frequently incapable of judging for herself. When in that state she had frequently attempted to do him bodily harm ; and when she recovered herself would acknowledge that she did not know what she was doing. He was afraid of her destroying herself, and had taken such steps as he thought advisable to pre vent it.—Elizabeth Rimmer, a respectable elderly fe male, who lived next door, said the deceased for the last fortnight had been greatly troubled in her mind in conse quence of the conduct of the bailiffs; her feelings, she said, were quite overturned by it, and she frequently spoke of self destruction. Deceased had told her they had promised to come on Monday and settle, as agreed upon, for the fixtures, but they did not come, and she became dreadfully troubled and excited, saying that she (witness) must see her die. Witness remonstrated with her, but her mind was unsettled at the idea of the bailiffs corning and taking her furniture. On Tuesday they did come, and she requested the principal one to go up stairs, which she prevailed upon him to do. She saw deceased again same afternoon, and she was still much troubled. Shortly afterwards deceased came into her house, and on seeing her in the passage, she sent the washerwoman who was working in the house and knew deceased, saying it was Mrs. Lucas. That person went to her, and shortly after cried out to witness to come, as deceased was dying. Witness went into her front parlour and found deceased on the sofa dying. She died almost instantly. Witness had never seen her incapable from liquor of attending to her busi ness or her shop. In her opinion her trouble during the last fortnight was so great as to put her sometimes out of her mind.—Mr. Ackerley, surgeon, said be was called to attend her, but on reaching the house found her quite dead. On a post-mortem examination, he found from the inflamed and softened state of the membranes of the stomach, also from an analysis of its contents, that a large quantity of oxalic acid had been taken, arid had caused death. He also found about half an ounce of laudnum in the deceased's bedroom in a wine glass: Mr. Dean's assistant said he had sold the poison to the little girl whom he knew as having frequently bought it before for her sister's to clean bonnets with. He had no suspicion that it was for any other pur pose. Mr. Dean was not in at the time. The coroner said that no blame whatever could, under the circumstances, be attached to Mr. Dean, or the young mau. A daughter of the deceased, aged 15, said that on Tuesday evening between five and six, she saw deceased put something into her mouth like salts, apparently in little white lumps. She afterwards went up stairs to the room over the shop, and returned soon after, when she seemed as if she was throwing up in her apron. Witness asked her if she would have a cup of tea, and she could not speak, but went out, and witness never saw her again alive. Police-officer, Heydon found in the room above stairs a small quantity of oxalic acid in the cloth that covered the table, also a tea-spoon in which there was also some, and which appeared wet, as if recently used.—The coroner summed up the principal parts of the evidence, leaving the jury to decide the main question, namely, whether the deceased, when she took the poison, was in a deranged state of mind ?—The jury immediately returned a verdict, to the effect, that the deceased had destroyed her. self by taking oxalic acid, while labouring under temporary derangement of mind.—The quantity of the poison sold was half an ounce ; and as very little of it was found in the house, the deceased had taken nearly the whole—a dose so great, that its effects were fatal in a very short time. FINE ARTS, There is at present a collection of very fine pictures exhi biting at Mr. Lacey's, Bold-street, to which we beg to draw the attention of amateurs, not only from the excellence but the rarity of many of the specimens. There are two or three to which special notice ought to be given. There is a Raffaelle of extraordinary beauty and brilliance, representing the Virgin, Child, and St. John. This is a picture well known as Il sonno di Gesu. The Virgin is exquisitely painted. This is a work of high class. There is also a Titian possessing great merit. There is also " The Laura," of Raffnelle, a brilliant and beautiful picture. A Carlo Dolci will also give great delight. There is a drawing by Raffaelle of the Battle between Constantine the Great and hlaxentius, that will be greatly admired for its vigour, boldness, spirit, and execu tion. Besides these, there are works from the Dutch and Flemish schools. Two magnificent landscapes by Ruysdael. A cu rious and elaborate Watteau, representing a Pal Masque, in which hundreds of figures are introduced. " A Breeze," by Backhuysen, is a charming picture. "A Vandyke" will greatly please the admirers of this artist, as also a powerful Rembrandt. From the Spanish school there are several works of great merit, in which an Alonzo Cano and a Murillo are greatly distinguished. One by the latter ought to be looked at b y every painter in this town with the most minute attention, as showing the mode adopted by Mu rillo in the working and handling of his subjects. This picture represents the Assumption of the Virgin, and is half finished. The Spanish school has a gravity and majesty about it that cannot fail to be admired by the man of taste. Its masters may not be so correct as the Roman school, but their knowledge of effect quite compensates for what they otherwise want. Amongst the mighty ones of the Spanish school may be reckoned Murillo, the painter of the work above alluded to. A word or two respecting him will not be out of place. The history of the Spanish school is as full of picturesque situations and animated recitals as the best romances, which we owe to the authors of our own country. Every master has a character proper to him, and every event in the life of the painter reveals one of the quali ties of his talents. Bartolomeo Esteban 3furillo was born of a wealthy fa mily at Silas, a little village in Andalusia, in 1613. To his uncle he was indebted for the first notions of his art. In a journey he made to Madrid, Velasquez showed him the Escurial and the Royal Palaces, and obtained for him per mission to copy the works of Titian, Rubens, and Van Dyck; he combined in his work the study of th e b eaut i ful and the antique; and on returning to Seville, obedient to th e good counsel of Velasquez, lie copied nature. His first works are his chefs d'alivre, and in the rest of his career the first traces of his early educations may be found. The labour s of Murillo are immense ; he has decorated nearly all th e e d i fi ces at Se ville and we find evidences of his genius at C a di z, C ordova, Grenada, and Madrid. A little more correctness and noble ness in his style would have elevated Murillo to the very summit of that art, which lie has, a mongst others, rendered so celebrated. The picture of the " Death of S a i nt C lair, " which he painted for the cloister of St. Fr anc i s, of Seville, is, without question, the masterpiece of Mu r ill o : it was also his best production in the Gall ery Aguado. at Pari s , which possessed fifty-two pictures attribut e d to h i m. This gallery has lately been sold—several works from it are in this collection, which, taken altogether, has many more th an common claims to the notice and attention of the connois seurs and collectors. RECONSTRUCTION OP THE CONSTELLATIONS.--NOHe bat those that have bad experience of it have the least idea of the confusion which prevails in astronomical catalogues. A common globe will show that the boundaries of the constel lations are zig-zagged in all directions, and that sometimes a long strip from one constellation passes direct into the region occupied by another. This confusion is necessary to recon cile the irregular manner in which observers have registered their results, and the occasional misplacement of stars by er ror of calculation or by confounding one star with another. Mr. P. Bailey, President of the Royal Astronomical Society, we hear, meditates an extensive attack upon this confused system ; and Sir J. llerschel has already given not i ce that, as far as the southern hemisphere isconcerned, he willattempt ' the utter eradication of the existing constellati ons. E ven supposing that it would be hardly possible to remod e l t h e northern hemisphere entirely, we should hope it might he practicable to introduce something like plain and easy boun daries; and, surely, no one has so good a ri g h t to make the attempt, or so fair a prospect of u n iting all suff rages, as the. reformer (Mr. Bailey) who has broken ground by revising, comparing, and reprinting nearly all the catalogues whi c h have tren given 14y 4 rsa evil q 9r40(1 co4qcl4oo4s, .4,00,0,,i, MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE. memberssenTtheetftoilileowweinekgly...loenas meeting o y f e s t t h e e ' . d p a s? - man,) B a rclay, Holt, Holmes, Smito, Molyillux,.k°, and Bold, Bramley-Moore, Chilton, Evans. their mended re. The Sub-committee of Works presented : e _..,. • whic h they r cu... mittee.smn were t ,.., c e_ bd p o r ei e nr : , port on the subject of the warehouses, in , _ the b y that all the floors should be constructed ii C ed by the ciple of the brick arch, according to a model propriety of irn.. Surveyor. Some discussion ensued on the prop tY tending' tbst RiPleY, Tobin, Ai in, mediately adopting the report, Mr. EVallS con lard bell'''. an estimate of the entire expense should first bees...,,,,ted the committee. The Chairman said the Surveoyor,36'ls7.'per the cost, according to the plan now submitted, 11 ' , ~, the re por. e s square yard. On the motion of Mr. Rivr.,BY confirmed. On the motion of Mr. RIPLEY the Surveyor was co _ 2 struc i g to inquire and report upon the best mode of con fire-proof roof to the new warehouses. he s ub-ea ul. In compliance with a recommendation of t d statements mittee, it was directed that all the reports an r __„ r d e d made u p on the subject of the new warehouses be et' in the books of the committee. de p art m e n t ent The Sub-committee for the Marine Surveyor's, submitted a letter received from the Elder Brethren ot. ___ he co Trinity House, in reply to an application from t , orth'est instructed n s table to place a floating beacon upon the end of the corner of Hoyle Bank, and another at the end of Ce be useful o f s Bank. Th e Elder Brethren concurred in the proPe,l e _ J.,, e ful buoy with regard to Constable's Bank, as it would Da ; c od to the trade and navigation of the river Dee, and th r eY fere pce direct one to be put down in that position. Wit h v e , it sp. to the buoy on the north-west corner of Hoyle Bar.le.„.„ited peared t o the Elder Brethren that its utility would I? 4 0 ~I to the trade of the port of Liverpool, and it would. t u t -i c ier app en d age t o it ; under these circumstances, the .A c k, Brethren had no objection to the Trustees of th . . _ 1 ) , so d putting do wn and maintaining a buoy in that Hou se os the sanction of the Corporation of the Trinity 1 -I °' consequently given to the Dock Trustees so doing.. at o ur The CHAIRMAN.—That is, they allow us to dd it own expense. Mr. EVANS.—And they also get a prece dent for us to oil ed our money within their distances. Mr. Tonto thought the Trinity House Tell. ghabbl:datiou Mr. RIPLEY observed, that as this was a recoaltde"22l to from their own Marine Surveyor, it was hardly neces sary refer the subject ack aain. LEY b - g Moo nE thought that as the si ptuakticoooo3a Mr. BumA , the propo se d buoy was out of the limits of the lc mittee, they had no power to place it there. laced 56 - . RIPLEY considered that the buoy should be P Ile. recommended. The expense would be a mealg st ! ass' tion : it was th E e a la q Mr. BRAM'. 1 11 Mr. TOB I N . -- I:p r -r h i 'II en enycOiOmpltliegEhi ti said as owl the el dl.as k expense us to Eo a i n to 1 their buoys. e i t, Trie 6 , i ti t house AIKIN said this refusal on the part oi •,-e,,cl that enormous was doubly vexatious, when it was reeditee,d from theorsurs• surplus funds they had accumulated, dente House shipping interest. The masters of the Trie d bey bed gave splendid dinners to dukes and noblemen, ad d ;,terel t s o a f iling excursions, all at the expense of the Shipp I w ent this and other ports, and now that a little irnr° their was suggested they told the Dock Committee tad° 4 at Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORIC again own expense. pot one of 0 expense, but one in which the committee hau",,totbl' .. mr a . m ii i o le Ll fu iE rt s h in er e . tgo beyond the bounds of the port. If they accede! to gs half now, they might, at some future time, be called oP°' said the questioin.:po,r, ntioned that the North-west Light4bi l wa! out of theundaries of te ort. tof sr°. p Mr. AIKIN re bo lied that that h wa p s under an Ow P ment. Mr Communication After ursthhneurlddishcue openedssion, it was withdecidedrtrhiantitay otobler communication i the upon the subject. tha t to The Harbour Masters' Sub-committee reported ~ 4 , could not recommend the use of wood instead c f _„ ll b.ear. signalise the condition of the docks. The Or ° u ' l Pon ; mittee recommended, and it was adopted, tb,_a t „ Mss t , e d; stones h over the house-doors of the South Haroo—he 0 , , i 11nd o t e Masters of King's and Queen's Docks, t h e „ § Ta u s th Harbour Master," " Master of King's 9°c li TheA tr of Queen's Dock," should be written. wlii4f North Harbour Master reported a triflidg itter"obio° took place on the evening of the 14th instant, in tu „er the flat S I ara I. MP The CHAI tete I ' i tb s RMAN wished the committee to $ d 0 . , stairs to lend the model of the frigate at the hell Ins tion (Criesyes.") . i ,to the intended exhibition at the Collegiate ( L T a u h g e er it. pilot f a Mr. BARCLAY.—They must send down aPI it CHAIRMAN said, this model WAS wan- e tics : t d be et lb i was one of the articles which had been saved at tb e Exchange was burnt down. T o h n e t a h pplication was then granted. of the er e os re firn r g e 4 s se t n n ta t t h io e n s o e f ve M ra r l . BdnaeAkuhLrEidvg-ervisfowoorrrie. ftebrerestitlij the Surveyor; after which the committee scpaote". BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS. ig On Tuesday evening last the adjourned metWtbs b, body was held in the Commissioners' room , I fo gri.sl, hall ' • present, J. D. Case, Esq., chairman, prichtL„oo,, Jackson, J. H. Green, Wm. Cole, Alex. Kerr, aVit" ' John Laird, D. M`Nicol, Wm. Horner,C g;atlo° Thos. Gilberston, J. R. Pim, Jas. Parker, So l ' Stansfield, J. D. Appleton. (' 4f r. ill e 'er ioi oe 01 ,1 On the chairman taking his seat, the Law laby) stated that it had been usual for the eunir n ver nee t th ote their last month of office to amend the irtiP r f n , o f . 0 0 lighting and watching rates, by adding the.";t e hO e he er parties who had become liable to be rated sin c ' n3 ight %jar had been laid, in order that as many aspossible 0 0 0 dopc franchised, so as to vote at the election of Ile! . c .botil ci ,:o/ r , ers, but to do that it was necessary the Board a tbe iow d dios some such resolution as the following :—" Th u" PO( ment and lignting and watching rates be atnen'eb, to to the rates the names of such persons who oug rated to them." vo rd• god This resolution was a t once a d o pt e d by the "" 31r•% - t iat: Mr. MALLABY then referred to a letter froni l esE toy" 5 0a Cole, which was read by the chairman at the ;ss iont r ; r fet t respecting an action he had against the No ra ; d the which was tried at the last Chester Assize', ~0 , 5 i 00 th e that it would be better to refrain from any d i°c ;;t b ef ..rtri fa ' subject at present, as the matter was at Pre i s- ,. De^ tho court above, a rule nisi havin been ranted i ° ' ids cfr 0 1 d e ct efore , b , He had hoped the motion would have been last day of term, but it had not, and mus t ' t w her s s,ettlE sy td stand over till the next, When the matte r h ve.e n Rss - should be able to show, notwithstanding what od e ' on'c to the contrary, that the: defence set up to tha t the c not only the proper course to adopt, but under all the he stances of the case, the only one which could be P a u it houg t pe said this with every respect for Mr. Cole, wh i ° r ; the ' f oi tl 'od e : might not succeed in obtaining his money either sought, yet he would no doubt obtain it in 21 2" j g Mr. Mallaby then referred to the subject of de'', l l: F e " g .io td ties of the Law-Cierk, and fixin his salary for 0 ;16 1 ; which he said he was anxious g should he done , a s , teP o ir the new board would do it as soon as convenieutt:e co rn les t at present were in a very u nsa ti s f a ctory state, t c ,y cas es sioners bei ng a f ra id o f t a ki ng legal advice in ma n y lic'tor' they should incur detaild experditure. The CmairtmaN read a letter from Mr. Cudlegt; clieo claiming comp ensa ti on f or an ill ega l distraint 011 his by the market looker. t he e ir t c orev Mr. NIALLABY said he had inquired into he m oo' stances of the case, and the claim set up W" a3s tter posterous one ever heard of.th e On the suggestion of Mr. HORNER, however ' was referred to the Market Committee. Adjourned to the sth June. DC AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.—SoriIe excite —e f caused in London, by the seizure of a numb er ° c IP" hoto American cotton manufactures at the custoin-r•os on the alleged ground that they bore a surrePtitl as°' l : l Eurporting that they were of English mantifac tt ! '' s r ec° o l/ ' Stark Mills, Manchester." Many very sag lic „ l° , o u on tbe st 4 have been made in some of the London paPer s, ject a of the shippers in affixing this aurreptitioux6tl; mongst others, that they intended to pass c'lleteurecitf foreign these countries, as being of English mann's,b osit c (l," wise conjectures are, however, only sn much pet,fi thrown er. away ; for the mark is, we have nn d°u ' 0; bilr O' s g el lu ev ine. There are no " Stark Mills" in t his ten °l6 c b alled e .N t i h a e r re is an establishment of that nan h ' i e r „ ; 01 (1 00 ichester, situated in New HainP i - th tr goods in question Were, no doubt, the produer ° ti c s - Ile G e o l or ofoa e th A a t t a e a s e t h a e b s l t i e sh ra m i e n n t t h . e There are in all no u l a Ti o lef United dian roof' in t he st .o. ofA_ SURVIVOR OF THE 4-ITH.—A letter apPesrs,, the 10" Monday, dated Camp Deesa, March 2, gl' l l 4 491 ,e'' culars of the safety of one member of the theillfst le e giment. The following are the chief features of corer ,c,l „. c o. 0 , ~ " This morning a strange man came into caenr c 'h; he, e t o , hair, and almost naked, his face burnt verY ra il , t he 'l st r out to be Lance-Sergeant Philip Edwards, c'' oulili'd i e e 1 " general „. On` OP _44thun Regiment, who escaped at the gen e G dainuck, Affghanisten, and after travelling I' in to c l ot/ a southerly direction by the ' sun, be found h is w t a h l e 44 1,a h t °l4 l here, not knowing hewhere make ' were all drunk, and could wriaos.resHisetanacYes, 5 ," 0 -c . l t file s r -s Sepoys threw away their arms and were cut du v ` we n 0 113 wounded by a bullet in the leg, and when t . h h e er n i.i' n r nearly all cu t p m a a r d at e cid off. They kept together eight month ° ct ion, ° oll ll ' up he mounted a camel with ann' on d th e ( t o; as they could not agree about the dire j, 0 0.- 0 0 veiling. They lived on anv grain they could 6 , n we l l, . re l is 0r; goats now and then, but sometimes were oblig ,', their grass and herbs. The Affhans treated then" ou t 0 ' 0 0 0 ' entering Scinde the natives used to hunt the se ot e c dr oc:; villages and set dogs on them. This man .s w orn }cri e d and was in the 3d Buffs, but exchanged wit h our W ei 6 ' l He is a fine soldier-looking fellow ; some of ru pee% Of him when in the Buffs. We have given bin' 120 1,ft 1°1. 0 0% Bo men have given him nearly 300. He hs 4 ll 4tii , M ° es tel Bombay, and is going to England to join the ' tini s i . r o iti' the large he skirted the small villages, soEn e st 11 hid with much kindness and occasionally with,gr: hooti'olt el e , the villagers sometimes seizing him by the "31- ' Ch " o r fri l l as a Feringee, and spitting in his face ; he is ° l , n ti v it t'': of t , - travel-worn—as might be expected ; he has '"dries'„ O . ; PaY due to him, and may, perhaps, by see N o el ( tir a fhl' government and others, be enabled to ",,,A1 reP fortably in some little way in England ,which for his last two years of misery." AO SOCIETY.— I'OAA:t 1° CHURCH EXTENSION THROUGH T.'w. .. OA' f dot}'a ..v PA° r stil the church is now, He ' d there been some years alo e ' on ce ° er a - which there is now —that perforfn_ ich,b9S°, which there is now—that faithfulness' of doctrinveg°, thatil'oala who foirn so large a body despite many exceptions, then I be ilechurches Foil, have been found in her pale, promoting` her .. t i l e fl l o l iCi; stead of • interrupting it. (Hear, hear.). ~be , i e e wo,r u ., e rso P in opposition to th e use fuly c crek thete(l person does not carry the ministration 01 ',... c lite a,Y .o 0 .: people require, we must expect the unaeo'.ing of Poo' thorized minister, we mu p st expect o go; and where the peo le have thatthe ble , ',oll be ,00 t o who are unauthorized. (Hear.) Now I %/i d P nc a ti lt °ll ; thr. ll re fef' ,biro the case of the chapelry of Coins, in the multiplenortiliedisp 04 andby I regret to say, that such cases may be s, sl' , hundreds in that count and in Yorkstri. 1836 the chapelry of Cottle ' contained Z . pero ° : s o lips there was a single church and clergyinan,_t , t 3, 00 t wee d , wins not being compact together, but av ou f frofo t peP:cl 15'dli-ere; l o b- in t 'to ° town and the rest scattered over a district °b6 to n,? P, five miles in extent. What could the c hurch ers°ll.; cou°,e !talon, since it could hold no more than 80 0 ,P o r tb - A 0 5 ' there was no church at all for those scattereu.on oc h d oie rei try district. (Hear.) Can we wonder tha t _ ', er e o do ° ° o of things unaccredited persons should wandeld"ed, f or ts , i know blame and find many glad to listen to them? 111 . 0 ou r I ' o ' o 1 1 9, how we c(oluiledarb,lahmeaer.t)hemN,ovor, " d it I boa' or , , to e let the ? socie ihet . this w ell I or' the - state of the parish has been altered 1)) de re or c' io strumentality. Where there Wit then one v ., • N dr cii,., o o are now ',- building a:-.:ndanedacfloir c o le n r e , church ai, clips, and one school licensed for w orshiP w i bsviog b at ' 0 gy in , , s n ipo. ro of , ' K IC , persons—not to minister to, for that " w 11 0 t "is °ail' think of with regret and sorrow` -he has n° o ou - 3 00 ,i$ are witl • .nn the, reach of a laborious m an , J. ., o s , till:reeatiaroe-finille:ii:Jeb,"l7s°, his charge."—Peech of the ij'iehq qf Cil e "" oral 4ift ftiyeigly'g *Ohl ,