The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-09 00:00:00

tallied over the Whig-radical faction. Of the retiring councillors nine were conservatives and seven radicals. Tess conservatives and six radicals have been elected —the former gaining four votes. This result has settled the fate of Mr. Berkeley. The radicals had used every exertion, prior to the election, to gain a majority. At Bridgewater six conservatives were elected by considerable majorities. This borough is still conser vative. At Retford, after a sharp contest, in which every species of corrupt influence and intimidation were re sorted to by the radicals, the conservatives were sig nally triumphant. At Stamford, after a severe contest, six conser vati ves were returned. At Pontefract four conservatives were returned by very large majorities. The council is now composed of eleven conservatives and three whigs! At Kingston-upon-Thames the conservatives have been eminently successful. The borough was for ""merly quite governed 5y the radicals : now, it has a proportion of sixteen conservatives to eight liberals in the council, having returned Jive conservatives and one radical. At Cambridge the conservatives gained three wards out of four, leaving the radicals one ward in which . they prevailed. Six conservatives and four radicals were returned. Mr. Spring Rice and Mr. Pryrne will have no chance at the next election. At Carlisle all the old members were re-elected, almost without opposition. Carlisle is represented in parliament by two radicals. The result of the muni cipal election is deemed of no importance whatever— the conservatives having declined to interfere in any but two wards, in which they were successful. At Devizes also not a single conservative would allow . himself to be put in nomination—so disgusted are the respectable inhabitants with the proceedings of the town council. At Preston eight conservatives and four radicals were elected. The return of two conservative mem bers for this borough is looked upon as certain. At Lancaster the conservatives used no effort what ever to secure the ascendancy—the majority of the members of the council being men of no respectability. At Hull four conservatives and six radicals were returned—the conservatives gaining two votes. No systematic efforts were made by the conservatives. It is well, however, to know that the good cause is gra dually gaining ground. At Dorchester the radicals did not venture to start any candidates, and six conservatives were elected. At Wallingford four conservatives were elected. At Coventry the conservatives have gained two votes. Messrs. Ellice and Williams may bid adieu to this " good old town" in future, as the conservatives are determined to return two members at the next election. At Salisbury five conservatives and one radical were returned. At Monmouth four conservatives and two reformers have been elected. At Carmarthen five radicals and one conservative were returned. At Totnes, Devon, four radicals were returned. At Poole six reformers were elected. At Norwich six conservatives and ten radicals were returned—the former gaining two votes. At Harwich four liberals were returned. At Colchester the radicals started no candidates, and six conservatives were elected. At Reading six conservatives were returned. A Beverley four conservatives have been returned. At Eye four conservatives were elected. At Hertford four conservatives were chosen. Hastings has returned four conservatives, and two radicals. Oxford has returned seven conservatives, and three radicals. Newark has returned five conservatives, and one ra dical. Yarmouth has returned all radicals. At Daventry four conservatives were elected. At Northampton two conservatives, and four radi cals were elected. At Sudbury one consuvative, and three radicals were eloeted. At Ripon two conservatives and two radicals were chosen. The list which we have given above is by no means complete; but we shall endeavour to reduce the whole of the returns into a tabular shape in our next. One fact has been demonstrated by the result of the muni cipal elections—that the conservative cause is gaining strength in every part of the country. THE ELECTION OF MAYOR.—MEETING OF THE SE CRET CONCLAVE AT THE ANGEL.—According to their custom, whenever any business of importance is to be transacted in the Town Council, the self styled liberals bad a preliminary meeting yesterday at the Angel Hotel, for the purpose of pre-determining the election . of the mayur for the ensuing year. The council will meet today for the purpose of recording the resolu tions come to at the "secret conclave." Talk of the Town Council as a deliberative assembly! All the real business of the council is transacted at the Angel. What passes in the council chamber is mere talk, and can have no influence over the divisions which may take place. Of course, the choice of aldermen has been made in the same manner as the choice of mayor. The proceedings of this day in the council chamber will be mere empty formality. All discrepancies of opi nion have been already reconciled, in order to subserve a factious purpose. Bat who isto be mayor ? Is Joshua Walmsley, Esq. really tied upon as the honoured individual? The radical press, at least the Chronicle, the Journal, and the Albion, have strongly urged the propriety of elect. log this gentleman to the civic chair. Alas ! the chair man and factotum of the reform association is not des tined t o p res id e in the Town-hall, for this year at least At the meeting yesterday there were four members put in;sonsination to be balloted for, viz., Mr. Walmsley, Mr. John Holmes, Mr. Hornbv, and Mr. Bolton. On the scrutiny it appeared that Mr. Walmsley had 9 votes —Mr. John Holmes 3 votes—Mr. Hornby 12 votes— and Mr. Bolton 12 votes. The two last named gen tlemen were again nominated, whe❑ there appeared to be a majority of votes for Mr. Hornby. We have met been able to ascertain the exact result of the second scrutiny; but MR. HORNBY IS TO BE MAYOR ! So it is decreed by the cAbal at the Angel. What 4R independent set of folks are these same liberal town oeuncillors I How admirably do they act up to their professions. It is, perhaps, worth while to remark that, if this • prellininaty arrangement had not been entered into, sad if the gentlemen who respectively nominated Messrs. Walmsley, Holmes, Bolton, and Hornby, had gone to tho council chamber without previously coin promising their opinions, it is more than probable that 4 oonservative mayor would have been elected for the ensuing year! Let us suppose each of the above • gentlemen bad been proposed and seconded, and that the conservatives had proposed one of their number in apposition, the voting would have stood thus— Vot es. Far Mr. Walmsley Mr. John Holmes 3 Mr. Bolton Mr. Hornby A Conservative In order to avoid this result the liberals agree to tserge their differences of opinion before entering into time council chamber. Honourable councillors! In dependent.men ! Fang!) ! We hope every conservative member of the council will be present to express his abhor' ence of these " /*oral" proceedings. ELECTION OF ALDERMEN.—We understand that the 80 1 . distant " liberals" have determined to go "a a q new tack" in the election of Aldermen this • Year. They do not wish again to incur the obloquy of electing the rejected candidates into office, and to %veld the dilemma they have resolved to elect certain Inernbers of the council, in order that " the rejected" 11 ‘ 1 1 have an opportunity of getting into the council 4 7. the suffragos of the electors of those wards which a rc " booked as safe." By this trick they calculate I Pon securingthe" valuable services" of Mr. Earle and lar.Rawdon, with perhaps, those of one or two others. 84 t what will the retiring aldermen say to such an arrangement? Will they not take their revenge for m ach Scurvy treatment ? And what will the electors ?. Will they torrsent to be made the tools of the - - Angel Inn conclave ? Our conservative friends must be on the alert. Several fresh elections may take place in the course of a few days. The radicals must not be allowed to walk over the course. We hope the base trickery of the party will be exposed in the council in the course of this day. VOTE BY BALLOT.—The United States have gener ally been held up by the radicals as an example of the purity of election, under the lauded system of vote by ballot. As an illustration of the beautiful working of this system we introduce an extract from the corre spondence of the Morning herald; and, in doing so, we would venture to ask our radical contemporaries how such tricks as are detailed in the subjoined state ment are to be avoided in England. Are public offi cers less liable to corruption in this country than they are in America—the very land of " purity and inde pendence ?" What guarantee can be offered against the perpetration of similar frauds on the part of the " liberals" in this country ? The paragraph is ex tremely instructive, and must convince every honest mind of the absurdity as well as dishonest) , of the bal lot nostrum. New YORK, OCT. 20.—VOTE BY BALLOT.—No one un acquainted with the details can appreciate the extent of bribery and profligacy that mark our elections. I will de scribe the late Pennsylvania election as a fair specimen of many of the states. P. state legislature and governor were to be chosen, with members of Congress. Governor linnet., the present whig incumbent, was a candidate for re-election. His friends had thoroughly canvassed the state, and, by their ex tremely accurate registration of his votes, counted confidently on his re-election by 10,000 majority. He received, there is no question, a majority of the legal votes of the state at large, as was anticipated. But there were two classes of individuals interested in defeating Ritner—the black-legs, who had bet hundreds of thousands of dollars on the result, and the federal administration, which saw in Ititner's election its own overthrow. And how could these men de feat Mr. Ritner? By bribing the election officers, and by buying false returns enough to elect his opponent. This they were enabled to do by the magic of the close box— the secret suffrage—the ballot, for which some of you radical patriots are so clamorous. So well ascertained is this fact and so universally is it conceded that the defeat of Mr. Ritner is a fraud on the ballot box, that no bets are paid by the losers. That you may understand this statement to be predicted on sufficient premises, and not on mere party ru mour, it is only necessary to add that it is made on the au thority of a circular addressed to the friends of Mr. Ritner, by a gentleman who holds the responsible office of Secretary, of State of Pennsylvania. "It is known," says this gentle man, " that in several counties in which our opponents bad control, the votes of whole districts favourable to our can didate were, without shadow of law or justice, wholly re jected, and false and partial returns made. The opponent of our candidate for the office of governor appears to be elected by a majority of at least 5000. This is an event to which, if it had been fairly produced, we, as good citizens, would quietly if not peaceably submit. But there is such a strong probability of mal-practice and fraud in the whole transaction, that it is our duty peacefully to resist it, and fully to expose it."—Private Correspondence of the Morning Herald. WILLIAM RATHBONE. ESQ.—This day the • mayor alty of William Rathbone, Esq., terminates. We can not allow the occasion to pass without adding our tes timony to the zeal and fidelity, the dignity and ur banity, the strict independence and the scrupulous im partiality, with which he has discharged the important duties which have devolved upon him luting the past year. Widely differing as we do from Mr Rathbone on questions of a political and religious nature, we still feel that we should not be discharging our duty if we abstained from offering our tribute of admiration, when we reflect upon the manner in which he has re deemed the pledges which he volunteered when he was elected. However much we may be called upon to impugn his principles as a councillor, we are sure that every conservative will join us in expressing our ap probation of his conduct as mayor of Liverpool. We cordially trust that nothing in his future career may occur to diminish the respect which is now so univer sally paid to his character; and whoever may be ap pointed as his successor, we hope that he will make it his ambition to emulate the example of Mr. Rathbone. THE ROYAL WILLIAM. The following testimonial has been presented to Captain Swainson, of the Royal William : " To CAPTAIN SWAINSON, " The undersigned passengers in the steam-ship Royal William are desirous, before leaving the vessel, to express their sincere acknowledgments to her commander for the urbanity and kindness they have experienced from him per sonally, and their high sense of the good order and skilful management exhibited during the voyage in every depart ment of his ship. ‘• The greater part of them have made several other voy ages in packet ships, and they are unanimously of opinion that for the c eanhness of the vessel, for the abundance and excellence of all sorts of prol.ision, for the number, zcal, and efficiency of the attendants, and for general comfort and ac commodation, the Royal William has, in their experience ; never been surpassed, and seldom, if ever, equalled. " The undersigned are aware that testimonials of this na ture, however sincerely offered, have, front their frequency. come to be regarded as little more than formal and unmean ing compliments; they are however, particularly anxious that this should ❑ot be so considered; because, without in tending any disparagement to (akar ships, they cannot. ho' feel that the treatment they have met with in this, fairy %%wants a peculiarly emphatic and unqualified exprassiuu ()I their approbation : "T: J. Phillips Patk. J. Hamilton J. 13. PAtterren John Goodband Chas. F. llumbman Henry Hutchison 'l'. J. Thompson W. Burkinaster Samuel J. Sharpiey Erasmus Pratt William Taylor G. Head Geo. Hobson C. G. Houghton Joseph Pegg M. C. Mitchell W. H. Barlett Stephen H. Conroy Chas. Matt hesou 1). Labalniondine J. W. Harris Wm. Gwyn❑ .1. Wines Calvin C:Morzan Geo. Wilkibon V. P. Gordon Cumming Davis B. Stacey J. Itupett, capt. 7th refit." " Gentlemen,— I feel enable to express myself in a suita ble manner, but I trust you will accept the will for the deed,' for the very gratifying testimonial conveyed to me yesterday. And allow me to subscribe myself your ever faith ful obliged servant, " W. SWAINSON. " To T. J. Phillips, Esq., and the passengers per Royal William." The first of a series of sermons on the doctrines of the Church of Rome will be preached this evening, in St. Mi chael's Church, Pitt-street, by the Rev. IL Carpenter. Tht subject is, "The Bible the only Rule of Faith." THE ROYAL Wit.f,tAsi.—We have been favoured with a copy of the log kept on board this steamer on her homeward voyage, but the writing is perfectly unintelligible. The most material information is that which relates to the distances steamed each day, which are as follow;—October 21st, 135 miles; 22nd, 180; 23rd, 209; 24th. 187; 25th, 185; 26th, 190; 27tb, —; 2803, 210; 29th. 210; 30th, 225; 31st, 225; Nov. Ist, 245; 2nd, 230; 3rd, 215; 4th. 245; sth, 205. During the last four or five days the vessel encountered heavy gales. We understand that Mr. henry T. Betty, son of the highly gifted and talented " English litiscius" (W. H. W. Betty, Bsq„) who some years ago created such a sensation in the dramatic world, is engaged to perform 5 nights at the Theatre Royal, to commence on the 19th instant, and we doubt not (fru►n the favourable notice of his rrformances at Worces ter, Warwick, Shrewsbury, Nottinvharn, &c., &c.,) that the lovers of the histrionic art will experience a rare treat in this youthful scion of his far-famed sire. There is now to be seen in Thos. 13oyde and Sun's yard, in Kent-street, one of the finest specimens of City of St. Domingo mahogany ever imported into this country both as regards quality and size—a treat to the trade. Livhitroor, PROTESTANT Ben EVOI.NNT SoclETy.—The members belonging to the above society held their first an nual dinner at the John Bull Inn, Imiutier.street, on Mon day last, when a ntnOcr of new members were elected. This is a useful club, and one which recommends itself to all per sons wtsbing to provide fur ihemselves in sickness—who may obtain information at the Joh❑ The Liverpool, steam-ship, sailed from Cork for New York, at 6 a.m. on Tuesday last, and is now, we doubt nut, many hundred miles o❑ her voyage. We are happy to learn from official authority, that her experimental trip from and back to Cork, has been most satisfactory in all respects. She steamed 185 miles in 24 liaurs, with a strong wind before and ababt the beam; consuming only 25 cwt. of fuel per hour. making 30 tons. I cwt. 2 qrs. 26 lbs. in the 2 , 1 hours less by 25 per cent. than when she started first. The gentle men unconnected with the Company, deputed to report on the experimental voyage, speak in most high terms of her powers and capability. EARLY MANCHESTER MAIL.—We are happy to learn, that the mail from Manchester, leaving in the morning at seven o'clock, has been resumed, after an interregnum of some weeks, during which considerable inconvenience has been experienced by the Liverpool as well as Manchester public. Letters and papers by this mail must be posted be fore half-past six, a m. FORMS or DECLARATIONS, &c.,—adapted to the Borough Court of Liverpool, and applicabl, to other Courts of inferior jurisdiction. By J. C. Grocott, attorney-at-law, Liverpool. 1838.—We have long been anxious for cheap tribunals to administer the law in small actions. This desideratum is only to be obtained by an intermediate court between the superior courts and the Com tof Requests. It has been so in Liverpool by an ancient Court of Record usually styled the Court of Passage, and which has jurisdiction in all jiersonal and mixed actions arising within the borough and port. There is great simplicity in its practice: all the expensive machinery in the higher courts, as to roll, record, and heavy court fees, are avoided, and p a rties may have their causes decided here at a yery trifling expense. Mr. Grocott has made its practice his study; he is well known as the author of a compendious and valuable ireoti s e upon it; and which, from its moderate price, is accessible to every inhabitant. Its great utilitt entitles it fully to out recommendation. His recent work, on the Pleadings, is desirable for practitioners in all districts. The forms display much law learning, and constitute an excellent manual for pl-adihg, especially fin attorneys, and ate indispensable t o the Liverpool practitioner We are convinced that this author 1, ill never have to exclaim, " Genius thy patrons more cruel than they, First feed on thy brain and then leave thee to die." The work at the head of these remarks is not only useful to the attorneys of the Liverpool Borough Court, t;ot to the attorneys of all the other borough courts in England.— Bars New Weekly Messenger. The Dowager Countess of Newburgh died at her resi dence in Cavendish-place, Brighton, on Friday last. Her was in her tith year. MEETING OF THE DRAPERS' ASSISTANTS. A meeting of the drapers' assistants was held on Tuesday evening, in the Clarendon-rooms, for the purpose of con sidering the resolution which had been come to by their elm p:oyers relative to the honrs of closing, as well as to take measures for the formation of the intended institution in con nexion with their body. Mr. J. Its was called to the chair amidst much applause. He stated the purposes for which the meeting had been called together, and then went on to remark upon the resolution of the masters, lamenting that the desires of the more liberal portion should have been negatived by a majority of one. He thought, however, that the attainment of the full amount of reduction which had been sought was still within their reach, and that one of the most effectual modes of accomplishing their object would be to establish the institution which bad been spoken of. So soon as that was formed, he felt perfectly satisfied that it would induce those who had stood out to come forward, and, as many had already had done, to join heart and soul in their cause. There was one circumstance which must be eninently gratifying to them, namely, that those from whom they had expected the most opposition had proved their best friends. He understood that most of the districts had been visited by the masters' committee, and that many had give❑ in their adhesion; and he believed he might further say that, w lib very few exceptions, the whole of the employ ers had coincided i❑ the views put forth at the meeting which had been held in that room. If the drapers' assistants had not gained all that they desired and all that they were enti tled to, they had at least obtained some curtailment in the hours of labour, and it was for them to say what they would do with the leisure time which they had now at theirdisposal. He did not mean to give offence to the meeting; but he would have them remember that one of the chief arguments against them was, that whatever additional leisure was granted to them would very probably be spent in a manner unprofitable to themselves, and inimical to the interests of their employ ers. Their opponents had not dared publicly to avow that epinian, because there were employers in the room who could have confuted them. Still there might be some few individuals against whom the charge would hold, although he believed that they would be found very few indeed. One gentleman had told him that, as a body, the assistant drapers td . Liverpool were more respectable tha❑ those of London. Now, it remained with themselves to prove to the world that that gentleman had spoken correctly, and to convince their employers that all they wanted was a shortening of the hours of labour, so that they might have moral and mental relaxa ti Mr. TRIPP, of Lord-street, moved the bat resolution, which expressed the regret of the drapers' assistants that by a ma jority of one only they had been prevented from obtaining such a curtailinent of the hours of business as they had aux i wsly anticipated; but, at the same time, they begged to re teen thanks to their employers for the reduction which had been conceded, and hoped that after the formation of their institution a still further curtailment would be made. Mr. Tripp proceeded to say, that it behoved them to take into serious consideration the new position iu which they were now placed. However respectable they were, there was no portion of the community thought less of than themselves. And from what did that arise? Not certainly from their want of ability or integrity; for their avocation was one which de manded great energy of mind, natural and acquired ability, as well as the most upright principle. They did not, in fact, rank so high as the mere merchant's clerk, whose occupation required little talent, the chief accomplishment which he re quired being to write a good legible hand. It would be very natural to imagine that they, being the best, we're likely to be treated the best; but such was not the fact. The mer chant's clerk received from his employer the most gentle manly and urbane treatment, and the consequence was that he became attached to and proud of his profession. The drapers' assistant, ou the other hand, too frequently experi enced the utmost severity, and that was the chief reason why lie looked upon his employer and his occupation with utter disgust. Besides, the clerk very often beheld in his employer the schular as well as the gentleman, whereas they, although they saw him active, and lively, and polite enough during the day, ton frequently beheld him, who n out of his shop, yield himself up to indolence—become, positively speaking, dead; and, however much they might deplore this lamenta ble truth, however great their desire not to turn to the seine error, or follow in the same track, they were necessitated to do so. Those were a few ofthe had moral effects arising from their position, and the physical effects were equally deplorable And with those facts before them, were they not justified in assembling together to commune one with another, and to contrive to wipe off the iguominious stain which was cast upon their body? Were they not, indeed, to blame for not having stepped forward before to endeavour to improve their condition, and to reach that station which they ought to occupy ? If they did not respect themselves, they could not expect anyone else to respect them: The chief arguments which had been employed against them were based on pounds, shillings, and pence; but such arguments as those no man had a right to advance, and no man would om any account advance; for if self-interest only were to be the :vide in fixing the amount of labour to be extracted from a servant, it must evidently be right to force him to toil so lung es his services would yield a profit. Ile denied that any one had the right to use them as the mere michines for earning money; and no reflecting person, looking upon the subject in a large point of view, would say that it was wise to do so. From their ranks the shopkeepers sprung, and the shop keepers he took to be the most powerful political body in ex istence. Now, if the youths who were to form this import ant part of the community were not allowed opportunities for improving their minds, and of becoming acquainted with the histors or the institutions of the land in which they lived, how could it be expected that, in after years, they should be enabled to use the power with which they might be invested wisely, and in defence of the true interests of the country? Every drapers' assistant who did not come forward in sup port of the contemplated institution, would be a traitor to the cause. Let them unite firmly together, and it would require a much stronger body than the masters uow were to thwart „their views. • The employers had partially met their views— it might have been wished that they had met them more fully, if not more frankly, and had given them, in some de gree, that opportunity for improvement which they had sought fur; and if they supported the institution, they would then be able to come forward with a powerful argument in favour of a huffier relaxation, and would, at the same time, evince the sincerity with which they had all along been actuated. No respectable employer in the town would then, he felt as sured, oppose the boon which they sought ; their only cute mins %timid lie the ignorant and the mercenary. B es id es , the good effects of their institution would not be confined to themselves only. The masters would shortly be saying, when they perceived the advances which their yoting men were making, " Upon my word we must begin to improve ourselves, or these chaps will beat us." And the accomplish ment of that was what was desired ; for when the masters were forced into improving themselves, they would also want leisure time as well as their assistants; and the more the em ployer learned, the more anxious would be become in the promotion of the mental improvement of his assistants. (Mr. T. was warmly applauded throughout his speech, and sat down amidst great cheering.) Mr. SA LT, of Messrs. Cripps and Co's, Bold-street, seconded the motion. Ile said that Mr. Tripp had so eloquently in- troduced the motion, that it would be unnecessary for him to •go over the same ground again. Ile had nevertheless, a few remarks to offer to them, which he hoped would not be deetned irrelevant. What. country, he would ask, had strueigled for the abolition of slavery abroad except Great Britain? Yet it teas strange that the adage of "Charity begins at home" should have been overlooked. Little did the immortal Wil her fore!, whose name ‘vas as a heaven-burn sound to the now emancipated slave, suppose that some of his free-horn coun ts) men and women were slaves in reality, though under aae. liter apellation. When defined, the only difference was, that the English were not the exclusive property of their emeleyers; but their health, their strength, both mental and physical, were sacrificed to enrich those individuals. The first class of home slaves alluded to were the assistants in shops, wises state had been so justly attended to, and their condition amt io sited. A second appeal, however, ought to be mad- in behalf .f the assistants to milliners and dress-makers, wesise ca e, when investigated, would be found to be, if possible, lei I u o e op- • pressive. the fashionable milliners and dress-makers i a the metropolis, and other large towns, kept their assistants at. work from six o'clock in the inorning until twelve at night ; and on some . occasions their hour of cessation from business was even later, and the time devrt•-d to rest still more limited. The melancholy consequences of this state of things were soots apparent. From fatigue and confinement the constitu tion became a prey to consumption, and a premature grave was the only place of rest for the hapless victim. Many hun dreds who had been thus sacrificed had been broueht up in childhood amidst every comfort—some were the slaughters of professional men and merchants, forced, by a reverse of for tune, or the death of their parents, to earn their maietenance by toil. He felt assured that his amiable and beautiful coun trywomen would shudder when they were told that any ad dition which they might have derived from dress had been so dearly purchased, and would use every exertion in their power to base the hours Pflabour lessened. They hadonly t )touch the chord of female sympathy, and success was sure to result—the weak party would become :he strong. The speaker then pro ceeded to sac, that he would give way to his friend in eloquence, but not in zeal for the success of the institution which, he felt assured, was to be formed. He should advise that officers he chosen from among the employers, for, unless that was done, they would he building upon an unsound foundation, and the superstructure would ultimately fall to the ground. The motion was then put end carried unanimously. • Mr. SceoeeetEan moved the next resolution—" That an institution be immediately established, and that a committee be appointed with full powers to draw up rules and regula tions for its guidance." He said that they had brought for ward a conjoint proposal for the curtailment of the hours of labour, and fur the founding of an institution, and as the for mer had been obtained, it now became incumbent on them to carry the latter into effect. He did not anticipate that their scheme could be accomplished without encouuteriug some difficulties; but he thought that there were none in the way but what were surmountable. He confidently trusted none of their employers would stand aloof from sordid motives, for the mere purpose of saving money, which was utter trash as compared to the improvement of the mind. Perchance there might be some among them who were careless as to the cultivation of their intellectual powers; but he entreated them to cast off their listlessness, and not suffer their talents like the gold of the miser, to lie unused and useless, or be like the flower that "wastes its sweetness on the desert air." If they did not sow good seed, thorns would spring up. They lived in an astonishing age—when the sun of knowledge had arisen, and itnprovement was going on is all arou nd them; and were they to be the only class that were to stand station ary in the midst of the general march? he hoped not, and that the institution would be unanimously formed. Mr. E. P. JUNES seconded the resolution, in doing which he pointed out the advantages that must result from the in stitution, and said that it would deserve the support sif men of every kind of politics an d o f ever y re li g i ous sec t. H e ex pressed a hope that it would be formed upon such a basis as would teach its members to be religious and moral men, and lead them from the study of nature up to nature's God. Mr. RA proposed that a president and two vice-pre sidents should be elected for the next year, whose duty it should be, with the assistance of the committee, to draw up a plan of the proposed institutiOn, with rules, &c Ile ex horted the drapers' assistants still to look onward; the re mainder of their liberty was before them, and they ought still to press towards it. He acknowledged that they could look back upon the past with gratification • but was convinced that there existed great danger of a relapse, and it there fore became a question of no little importance, what were the best means of preserving what they had obtained. 'The same grasping and tyrannical spirit which had reduced them to the bondage from which they had escaped was still in existence. He thought that their safety was to be looked for in the institution which they had resolved to found; but they must be cautious and careful, for a return of their op pressien would come through the gaps that they left in the moral fence of (heir establishment. He did not wish them to resort to combination, in the popular sense of that term; but he wished them to unite, as they had heretofore done; for the results of that 'anion had been such as to enable them to speak of their grievances in the past tense, or at least they now existed only in a initialed form. The force which they had exerted was a moral one, the most powerful of all forces; and he enlarging their knowledge, and a continuance of their efforts in the same laudable manner, they would not telly make themselves more fitted for the further amount of freedom which they claimed. but. Make it impossible that it should be denied to them when asked for. 3,1 r. Doweer. seconded the resolution, which acne unani mously cal Mr. SHINGLE n, in a very business-like and argumentative speech, proposed that a committee should be appointed. Mr. WEIO seconded the resolution, which was carried. The names of 24 persons were the;; delivered to the chair- Joan, ‘,11“.11 number the cmninittee-men were to be elected, last night, at the comolittee-room. A vote of thanks was proposed to the press for its steady and consistent support of the drapers' assistants, and was , arried with three times three. A vote of thanks to the chairman, the proposition of which called. forth another hearty burst of applause, was thee pass6d. DINNER TO T. M. GLADSTONE, ESQ. Last evening the friends of T. M. Gladstone, Esq., late candidate for the representation of South Toxteth ward, dined together at Brighouse's lintel, High Park-road. The large room at this hotel was decorated with a number of Union Jacks, flags and banners. The tables were set to accommo date 60 persons, and that number of gentlemen dined toge ther. The chair was occupied by t'eter Petrie, Esq., R.N., and the vice-chair by Captain Keliick. The dinner having been got up at an exceedingly short notice, several of the in vited guests were unable to attend. We, however, noticed at the Chairman's table T. M. Gladstone, Esq., Dr. Petrie, Dr. Pitcairn, Mr. Smith, Mr. Scott, Air. Pearson, Mr. Ox ley, &c. The dinner was both substantial and sumptuous: we have rarely sat down to a better dinner. The CHAIRMAN, the cloth having been removed, rose to propose the first toast. It was one which he was well assured, from the well known loyalty of the Conservatives, would be responded to with enthusiasm. " Her most gracious Ma jesty the Queen." Given with three times three. The CH A IRMAN next gave, " Adelaide, the Queen Dowa ger, and the rest of the Royal Family." (Great cheering.) The CHAtemsN then gave, " The health of one of the ablest Lawyers this country has produced, and one to %shorn this country is greatly indebted tor his exertions in defence of the constitution--Lord Lyndhurst;" and with it I will join " the House of Peers." The toast was given with three times three cheers. Song by a Gentleman.—" England, Europe's Glory." The CHAIRMAN then gave " The Saviour of our Country —the Duke."—(Enthusiastic cheering.) The VICE-PRESIDE:NT next rose, and said the next toast which appeared on the list was of such a character that it was needless for him to say one word in. praise of the individual. Sir Robert Peel had done more for the conservative cause than any other man in the country; and it would be ridicu lous on his part to eulogize him to them. No man had foueht so gloriously for the conservative cause as Sir Robert Peel; no man had stood forward inure unshackled, and no man seas wore ready to come forw ar d i n th e i r c ause than Si r Ito berl Peel. ( - Cheers.) Ile would propose to them " the health of Sir Robert Peel and the conservative members of the House of Commons." (Given with three times three enthusiastic cheers ) Song by Mr. Gasill.—" Captain Bell." The Vice-CirAlumeti next gave "the Members for the Borough and County,"—gentlemen who represented the most respectable constituency in the kingdom. (Cheers.) Mr. T. M. Gee oseiete—And we are happy to say they are all conservatives. (Renewed cheers.) Song by Mr. Kendall.—"ln yonder Cottage on the Hill." Mr. GLADSTONE, Jun. rose to propose the next toast. As it had been the fashion to introduce each toast with a cursory remark, he wished to be allowed to make a few observations on introducing the next toast. He considered the toast which he was about to propose the most important toast of the evening; if that which was the subject of it was destroyed, nothing to which they had expressed their attachment could bloom and flourish; he would give, "our glorious consti tution in church and state." (Great cheering.) As the toast had been so eethusiasticallv responded to he would ven ture to say a few words as to the church as established by law in this country, the church of the poor man, and next draw their attention to the reform which some would make in that church. Mr. Gladstone then went on to describe the early history and establishment of the church. In the words of his respected minister, Mr. Jones, the punishment or re wards of individuals iu this life was no criterion of God's favour or displeasure, as they were punished or rewarded hereafter according to their deserts. .But it was not so with nations; they must have their reward as nations in this world, and therefore if a nation pleased Ord, God gave it a temporal blessing; for God had said in his word, ''they that honour me, them will I honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed." Now our country had happily been one which had chosen publicly to acknowledge God ; and the only way to do that was to tumour his word in the land, which had been done by the Christian Established Church. The established church was toe church of the pour man and of 4se people. That church should be chosen for an established church, which was the church of the ma.jority; and therefore they rejoiced greatly that Presbyterianism was the established religion in Scoiland, beeause it was a scriptural church. (Cheers.) But :bey did not rejorce that the church of Rome was mule the established church iu Ire land, because, though the church of the majority, it was a damnable church. He spoke Stu:ugly-against the time-serv ing spirit of the ministry. They supported the Roman Ca 111011C church in Ireland by giving grants to Mayuooth Col lege; and in Canada and the colonies, by taking away the grants formerly allowed to the Protestant church, and trans ferring them to the Roman Catholir church, they were doing all ia their power to supplant the Protestant church, which they had sworn to defend. He spoke strongly against the introduction of the Irish system of education, which was at tempted to be introduced into general use in England through Liverpool, and which was cairulated to sap .curt undermine the Protestant church e.rt iblishmerit. The established church was like a beautiful alabaster statue, protected in a temple. which, when encrusted with the dust of ages, arid requiring renovating, the Roman Catholics, under pretence of doing this. rubbed with a dill cloth, and broke off the hands and arms, and called them instalments, till the whole statue was destroyed. They had an important duty to perform—to keep that glorious constitutiou in its present proper position, by sending Conservative members to the House of Commons. This they hail done, And by sending Conservative mem bers to the town council. (Cheers.) He was sorry that in that ward they had not succeeded; but he trusted they would hereafter du so; and by sending Conservative members into the council, prevent the Popish system of education from creeping through Liverpool into general and insidious use in the country. He complimented Mr. Cooper on the way' in which he had stood boldly and single-handed forward, and expressed his opinion in the council. He said they had been blamed fur bringing forward a candidate for that ward, as it was of no use to oppose Mr. Cropper. But if they had let the election pass without a struggle, many would nut take care to preserve their votes for the ensuing election. Ile concluded with hoping that their future efforts towards the support of the constitution would be more successful. — (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN gave " Lord Hill and the Army." _ Mr. T. M. GsairsTosir rose with the permis - sion of the chairman to propose the next toast. After a high eulogium on the navy and mercantile marine of this countrv, ae con cudeil with proposing "the navy and mercantile marine, coupling with the toast the names of our excellent chairman, a member of their mercantile marine; and may we always find those who are in the navy conservative in principle, as we know they arc the ornaments of their country." (Cheers.) Captain 11ELLICK rose to respond to the toast. lie traced the history of naval victories front the victory of Lord Howe over the combined fleets of France and Spain, down to the battle of the Nile, of Trafdlgar, and of Cape St. Vincent, and asserted that those who fought and won those victories, were good conservatives, fighting for their religion and their country against the enemies of both. (Cheers.) They were met that evening to congratulate Mr. Gladstone because they knew that he had fought a good fight. (Great cheering.) They were Met to congratulate him on the circumstance of 103 individuals having given hint their free and unimught votes. (Cheers.) lie had no hesitation in saying that in 1839 Mr. T. M. Gladstone would be returned a member Of the council of Liverpool for Toxteth Ward. (Cheers.) But they must put their shoulders to the wheel and exert them selves, else would they be beaten. (Loud cheers.) The Co aremAN then rose to propose the health of Mr. T. M. Gladstone,--(treat cheering)—the Conservative Can didate for South TOXtetil Ward. He was satisfied that no man could be found inure worthy or better qualified to repre sent the ward. (Cheers.) They had been unsuccessful this time; but he trusted, that so far from allowing this to damp their ardour it would only have the effect of rousing them to increased exertion, at the next opportunity, to secure his election, and success would be certain. (Cheers.) He con cluded with proposing " The health of Thomas Murray Gladstone. Esq." (Enthusiastic cheering.) Mr. T. M. CIADSruNE. on rising to respond to the toast, said it was impossible for hint to express the fulness of his heart in adequate tennis to them It was true he was under defeat; but as he had once before remarked, if this was de feat what must victory be? (Hear.) They were united in one common cause for one common purpose; they were united by the most sacred ties; and he spoke publicly when he said, that on Range ties alone he cla:med their assistance; on those ties alone he wished to merit their ( onfidence. Such occasions as these were indeed dear to him; and he might, in the words of the couplet, say— oi N I f e t,,A ll t, l lu e rr t ee n v o ( r e • r y t i l h ta : n ) f bs a ea s ( t i o h u e h r ie. s p r, r t , But never, pis never forget.—(Cheers.) Those who had preceded hint had adverted inure particularly to the general policy of the country' and he supposed in their kindness they had reft it to bim to address himself more par ticularly to their local interests and business. It was this that had called him there that day to meet them, and which bad called them there in their kind confidence to meet him. He wished he could show up our local rulers in magnffitent colours; he wished he could say that they were true patriots to their country, and dealers of justice and equity; but, alas! they were not that which he would wish to represent them. They had seated themselves in the council on tine principles of justice, and patriotism, and equity; and what had been thei r actions when they got there? Had, they been patriotic or selfish? Ilad they acted from factious motives or not? Why, he need not ask the question. They had acted factiously in not considering the best interests of the town; they had not followed the path which led to virtue and happiness; and in departing from that path he opposed them. It had been said that it was improper in him to oppose such a man as Mr. Cropper. He had not opposed him on personal grounds, for there was not a man in the town who for his personal virtues h e respecte d more th an M r . C ropper. at he opposed hint onapublic principle; he opposed him because he allied himself to a faction, whom he had "immured by such an alliance, for they were greatly beneath him; he had contaminated himself by the alliance, arid bad compro mised his principles in so doing. He put it down to weak ness of judgment rather than to any design on his part. lie (Mr. Cropper) had for his chairman such a man as Finch, a socialist and advoc a t e of th e su b version o f all order. ie should have been ashamed to have had such a man as his chairman, and should have drawn a line between himself and him, and said "you and I have no place together." No sooner had the reformers got seated in the councii under the most specious pretences, than how did they conduct them selves? Had they said, "we are ministers of justice and equity ?" Had they said "we look on every mom as a bro ther?'" No, they- had used all their efforts fur the purpose of , I)taininiz their ulterior objects, and had done everything that could strengthen them in their patronage, and in their power, and had done their utmost to set aside the conservatives altogether. (Cheers.) It was to oppose this system that. he had come forward, and not front personal opposition, and considering the very few days th a t he had come furwards before the election, it had been beyond his expectations to receive so much aUpport ; but it gave him hopes that he should succeed another year. If he was sup ported by the conservatives of South Toxterh Ward, he should endeavour to do his duty if returned to the Town Council. Much had been done and much remained to do, and he was sure when they recollected the trouble and an noyance that awaited their candidate, they would be ready to give him their assistance, and give a little of their trouble and time on his behalf, for it was as their representative that he wished to be returned to take care of their interests, which he was sorry to say in many instances had been neglected. lie did trot doubt but the opposition they had made would be of service, because those in power having such a strong op position, would not dare to bring forward anything but what was for the good of the community, and that would form the greatest security to their interests. (Much applause.) It might be said that South Toxteth Ward was an extremely small point compared with the nation at large ; but it was from the moral conduct of individuals and families that towns, counties, and countries were composed, and by the aggregate of time whole the character of the nation was determined. (Cheers.) And so it was in South Toxteth Ward. He believed that their opposition to Mr. Cr opper had done this service, that Mr. Cropper would see that it would be better for him to be all indepentiant man, than to bind himself hand and foot to a faction as he had done formerly. He regretted that Mr. Cooper and Mr. Robertson Gladstone were nut present as had been expected ; but he did not doubt but they would be ablersatisfactorily to account for their ab sence. Ile was anxious that questions might be put to him by individuals to test his political principles. He believed there was to be next day (to-day) an election of aldermen. Next daywould beau important day. It had been the usual rots tom of the council to return the rejected candidates for being councillors as aldermen. They were going to adhere to the same principle on this occasion, but would follow a rather dif ferent course, by bringing firmer(' councillors from such wards as they said were "safe," and then get fresh repre sentatives elected for those wards, from those candidates who had been rejected by other wards. lie believed North Toxteth ward was to he subjected to this process ; and if there was any member of that ward present, he hoped he would feel it his duly to oppose such a system with all his might. It was intolerable that they should thrust men in for the Wards, without everusking theta who they would have. It was a perfect iosult to those wards, and if those wards would only exert themselves they would return conservative representatives instead. (Cheers.) He concluded with pro posing the health of their chairman, Mr. Petrie, who bad been most active in his exertions at the election. The CHAIRMAN returned thanks in a neat and appropriate speech. Mr. T. M. GL DSTONE again rose and begged to propose "the Conservative Press." It was airiest ofsuch importance that he was sure the gentlemen of the press present would respond to it. He might say i❑ the words of Cowper— " How shall I speak of thee—thy power express Thou God of our idolatry, the press." And of the conservative press— " By thee religion; liberty, and laws Exert their influence and advance their cause." Of the radical press, with which, however, they bad nothing to do— " By thee worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befel Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell." The conservative press— " Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise." (Cheers.) The radical press— " Thou ever babbling stream of endless lies." (Great cheering.) Mr. Trios. CARTER, of the Liverpool Mail, Mr. I'. CA MP ns Lt. FOSTER, of the Liverpool Standard, and Mr. L. T. GASKILL, of the London Times, each responded at some length to the toast. Mr. T. M. GLADSTONE next proposed the health of the vice-chairman. Captain KELLicK briefly acknowledged the compliment. The heaths of Mr. Scott, of Mr. Hesketh the secretary, and of the treasurer, were then severally proposed and responded to. Mr. GLADSTONE next proposed the Canvassers, coupled with the name of Mr. Oxley. He trusted he should have their energetic services at the next election. Mr". OxLEY, in returning thanks, alluded to several cases where they had had distinct promises from individuals who had deceived them, having been bribed or intimidated by the Reformerg He had called on One man on the Saturday be fore the election, and received his instant promise of a vote for Mr. Gladstone, and he was to go for him on the election day. On the morning of the election, on going for him to his cow-house, he found Mr. FRANCIS JORDAN there. On asking the Voter to come forward and poll for Mr. Glad stone, Mr.. Jordan said, " if' you go and vote against us 1 will take your customers away." He (Mr. Oxley) said to Mr. Jordan, " He has given us his promise, he promised us last Saturday." Upon which Mr. Jordan said, " What arepro mises ?—promises amount to nothing; and if you vote for them I will take youik customers away." (Loud cries of " Shame.") The result was, that the man did not vote at all, and they thus lost his vote. He thought if this system of intimidation was pursued, they should unite and bring custom to those who were thus treated, and thus retaliate on their opponents. Mr. GLADSTONE alluded to another voter in the employ ment of a man named Clarke, a joiner, in the Park-road, who threatened to discharge him at night if he voted for Mr. Gladstone. Several other similar cases were also mentioned of the base intimidation of these self-dubbed " freedom of election" and "purity-loving" liberals. "The Town and Trade of Liverpool," and other loyal toasts were given, and the hilarity of the evening was in full progre3s, when our reporter left at 10 o'clock. FROM BENNETT'S VOYAGE FROM LIVERPOOL TO NEW YORK, (A YARN PROM THE NEW YORK MORNING HERALD.) A great many rumours, surmises, on tilts, stories, truths lies, and nonsense have been told of the voyage recently made of the good steam-ship Royal William, from Liverpool to this port. Having now perfectly recovered from the fatal ravages committed on my heart by the great number of very beautiful young ladies who catne as passengers, I shall pro ceed briefly to give a few hints on that interesting journey. The day was bright and beautiful ou which we embarked. The wind blew freshly from the east over the surface of the Mersey, ruffling it like the face of General Jackson,. when he swore against the nullifiers. Having disengaged myself from the charms of the Adelphi-hotcl, which is kept by a very splendid fellow, I proceeded down the street to the dock, pur chasing, a cap to wear at sea by the way. After laying out five shillings on this article, I counted cash, and found I had remaining a sovereign and four shillings, out of about 1700 dollars I had spent in Europe, from the Ist of May to the 20th of September. I have, therefore, done the business cheap, besides bringing with me 500 dollars worth in books on finance, philosophy, - literature, some beautiful prints, a quantity of St. James's-street clothing, and some linen, &c. At two o'clock the decks were crowded with passengers and • visitors. Sam Swartwout was amongst them. 1 was intro duced to the captain of the new Liverpool steamer, and he Told me he had received a great deal of information on the table d' hete from several of the American captains. He men tioned Captain Bursley especially; "and" said Captain Fayrer, "I mentioned the kindness of the American line captains to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, with whom I had an interview solne days ago. His royal highness was delighted with it, and expressed his warmest pleasure at the feelings now entertained by England and the United States towartis each other." It wily be recollected that the Duke of Sussex is the Queen's uncle and her principal ad viser. As early as ten o'clock, the docks for the whole length of Liverpool were filling rapidly with people. Probably 40,0(10 persons were assembled to see the Royal William depart. In a few minutes after two the word was given, the visitors took their departure, and she began to make her way down the river. When we bad proceeded some distance, a small boat was seen making for us. It was said to be an express from the Borings—others, the latest mail letter bag from Loudon, with the private letters which had been delayed on the Bir mingham railroad that morning. Whatever the small boat wanted to put aboard, I know not. She did not reach us; and since our arrival, I find that I have received none of my private correspondence from London or Paris. Others are in the same condition. The packet to sail after the Royal William will probably bring these mails out. I trust, however, that the railroad, or the company, may make such arrangements hereafter as will prevent such an occurrence a second time. It was not till we were sent to sea that we began to survey our situation. We then found what a crowd of passengers we had. Yet such was the press for passages, that if the company would have taken more, more would have come. There is an excitement about crossing in a steamer which no one can resist. I bad myself determined to return in a packet —but when the time came, and 1. set my face home wards, I could not resist the desire to get to New York as rapidly as possible. In a day, or a day and a half, two thirds of the passengers were sea-sick. 'What a horrible, pleasant, execrable, de lightful, singular excruciating, sensation sea-sickness is ! The alternation of sickness and the reverse are sometimes so sudden and so unexpected, that they have a pleasant im pression than otherwise. 1 am satisfied that fear makes many sea-sick. Nothing like fighting itout by eating soups, &c.—no matter how often you throw it off. 1 was, myself, only sick a day and a half: and a plate of soup my friend Mr. It. made me swallow, cured me. The ladies, poor souls, suffered awfully. I like to see a pretty girl sea-sick. She is so interesting and so helpless that it would delight the very aneoe. One of the fair passengers—a fine, buxom, healthy, English girl, never was sick at all. She was on deck in all weathers, and not a porpoise or a whale could pass, but she popped the rascal down in her note-book. Another very accomplished girl reclined on the settees, on deck, the greater part of the voyage—and looked with her two bright eyes, and talked with her eloquent tongue, in.such a bewitch ing style as not only to put many of the young gentlemen beside themselves, but almost made a worthy " old salt," from Salem, with a wife and nine children at home, feel as if he were on the southern side of twenty again. We had pretty tomrable weather the first week, but decid edly ahead. The second Sabbath was most divine—most beautiful. A reverend gentleman from Toronto, with a lady like woman for wife, and two little daughters, one of them a most interesting cherub, was invited by the captain to preach and pray in the after cabin. We had prayes also in the. evening in the fore cabin of the vessel. Immediately on the close of the last prayer, the wind began to blow, and for two days we had quite a gale, the waves running higher than I ever recollect to have seen them on the Atlantic. On the third day the gale closed. During the greatest gust the Royal William behaved nobly. She floated over the mountain wave like a perfect duck, shipping not a drop of water. There is nothing like a steamer iu a gale of any kind. She puts her nose into the teeth of it, mounts the wave by a superior power, and dashes it on each side of her, as if she was a living creature. Next Sunday we had another clearday, and of course more preachiug. The most of the passengers were good church going people—and I must say, I like to see people pay re spect to religion, particularly females. A woman regardless of religion or its forms is a perfect fright. Religion is a spe cies of pure poetry, and poetry is a female excellence. Fanny Wright, with all her talents, wants the delicious colouring which religion alone can give. She is a monster—half alli gator, half infidel. Well, after this day's work, we had ano ther blow, but not so fierce as the former. It really appeared to me that Satan,• after every Sunday, tried to do his worst in kicking up a rumpus among the winds and waves. During the voyage I (lined in the fore cabin, took tea in the after cabin, but spent the most of my time on deck, whe ther it was wet or dry, cold or warm. We made up in the fore cabin a party of fourteen as fine fellows as ever I saw brought together by accident. A young gentleman from Lowell, who has all the elements of a governor, justice of the peace, and bon vivant, joined in one lump, was placed in the chair—a "salt," from Salem, with ali the naireti and na tural shrewdness of new England, became his assistant. On my right sat a very accomplished young gentleman, of one of the first families of Havana. He was returning from Eu rope, where he had just finished his education. On my left sat a son of Old England. a capital specimen from the sturdy soil of the oak, now residing in Nero York. No small party meeting by accident, ever enjoyed themselves more than we did. Every day we had toasts, sentiments, songs, stories, and the liveliest conversation. I shall never forget some of the stories, .particularly the "caravan of hannimals." In wines and other delicacies 1 never saw such abundance. All sorts we had—in any quantities. One anecdote on this point. The two stewards who attended our cabin had just been caught in some Irish bog before we sailed. They were the greenest of the green. On the third day out, I heard them from my berth one night disputing what sort of wine they were regaling themselves with. "This is good sherry—capital sherry," said one. " Not at all, at all, said the other, "it is pdrt" (port.) "I'll bet you it is sherry." _ _ "I'll bet you it is part, every drop of it." And thus they were betting and drinking—drinking and betting what sort of wine they were enjoying. It was the first time, probably, that they had ever seen either. Thus much to-day. If I have time I may give a few more brief sketches. When we reached Fire Island Light, we were very glad, and conceived ourselves very lucky dogs. Captain Se ainsun and his officers behaved remarkably well. " Hannay and Dietrichsen's Almanack, Astronomical Ephemeris, and Book of General Information for 1839.—We are positively- at a loss' for words to express our astonishment at the unparalleled comprehensiveness of the Almanack just published by Messrs. Hannay and Dietricbsen, for the ensu ing year. There is scarcely a subject in the usual routine of events to which we do not find reference in this book of 100 pages, at the insignificant cost of 6d.; a sum which positively can little more than cover the price of the paper. The bio graphical and chronological tables are exceedinglyinteresting, particularly those for the present year. The tides, eclipses, &c., are duly noticed, and the progress of Encke's comet during the remainder of the present year, and Gambart's in 1839, are traced by diagrams of the heavens. We have the list of the royal households; the House of Lords giving the titles of the l'eers, the family name, the motto of the Peers, and dates of creation ;4he House of Commons is given twice, first alphabetically, secondly arranged by the places the mem bers represent ; the whole of the army list., giving the Officers' names alphabetically arranged, (a desideratum lone wanted) with the dates of Commissioo, and t he appointment the Officer holds; the navy list is given in like manor; the bankers, provincial and met ropo li tan ; th e corporat i on dignities ; am bassadors and consuls: universities; the list of fairs through out the kingdom is by . far the best ever printed; and icshort, as we have before observed, information upon every possible topic of interest is afforded to the public in this most useful pamphlet. Messrs. anuav and Dietrichsen have certainly put all competiti on out o f - the field, for, we should say, it would be impossible for any other firm to produce a similar compilation at five times the cost."---.3foraing Chronicle, Oct. 28. Published by the Proprietors, and sold at their warehouse, 63, Oxford-street, London ; and by all Booksellers and Sta tioners in the kingdom. In Liverpool, by Smith, 24, Scot land Place. CORRESPONDENCE. ELECTION OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Stu,—l am enabled to announce to your readers, on the authority of a member of the Town Council, that M r. Hugh Hornby has been this day elected Mayor of the borough for theensuing year. The appointment to* place at the Anger, but the secretary in his hurry forgot to give the reporters notice of the meeting. lam happy, however, that it is in my power to furnish the information, as it is an event in which, since the passing of the reform bill, the inhabitants take the steepest interest. I presume the aristocratic portion of the Council are quite willing to accept the laborious ser vices of Mr. Walmsiey, but do not think him quite ripe, as yet, - for the mayoralty. Mr. Thornhill's important claidis must be deferred for a few years longer. It is said that Mr. Currie and Mr. Bolton are to be trans mogrified into Aldermen, so that safe wards may be at the disposal of Mr. Rawdon and that very good-tempered gentle man, the rejected of Abercromby Ward. This is of course an on slit, and I give it as such. I have only to add, that Mr. Walmeley is a very ill-used man, for upon his breath in a great degree depends the elec tion of any one of the radical Councillors; and no man has worked harder, or exhibited more zeal to serve his party, than the active gentleman so unceremoniously disposed of. Yours, &c. Thursday Evening, Nov. 8. CASTIGATOR. RADICAL PURITY !-A FACT. TO 711 E EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sin,—A single case cannot be made out, as against the Conservative committee of this ward, wherein they interfered in the payment of taxes, in order that parties might become qualified to vote; but it can most satisfactorily be proved that a certain sum of money had been returned to the Reform Association from the Tar Wice, as an over-payment, the amount - haring been previously received by the tax collector during his rounds. lam respectfully, Sir, your servant, AN ABERCROMBY WATCHMAN. Myrtle-street, 611 t .Nov„ 1838. THE REV. JAMES ASPINALL TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST./IND4RD. Sttt,—A short time ago, 1 felt myself called on to address a few lines to you. relative to the conduct of the Rev. James Aspinall, in accepting a piece of plate at the hands of the teachers in the Corporation Schools. Since writing that letter, I have been seriously indisposed; but being now (I feel thankful) convalescent, I wish to recur to the circum stance, as I find the Athion attributed it to " a clerical origin not to be questioned," &c. The half-witted and mal•hearted scribe of the Albion is, in this instance, as in most others, "at fault ;" as you are aware that I am but a ve►y humble member of the Protestant Church, though I will yield to none in devotion and zeal in defence and support of her hallowed and scriptural bulwarks, to establish and consolidate which my ancestors gladly laid down their lives in the dust. Does the Albion suppose that Mr. Aspinall's conduct has excited the indignation and abhorrence of none but the clergy? How far otherwise is the fact! The clergy may, and 1 believe do, grieve to see one of their body so far forget the high dignity of his office, as to join a miserable cabal in rending the seamless mantle of their Master ; but it is the lay Protestants that feel (and have the greatest right to feel) aggrieved at the inimical and sinister steps of Mr. Aspinall. It is they, Sir, who have children whose spiritual health is at stake by the nefarious system of education in operation in the Corporation Schools, and against which system, they rightly maintain, it was Mr. Aspinall's bounden duty to protest, in order that their offspring might not touch the unholy thing. But, so it turns out, that gentleman's " liberal views in politics" led him to adopt a factious, false, and fraudulent course with regard to the Bible in these schools! It was not (according to the Albion) so much to be a faithful guardian and upholder of sound scriptural edu cation, (in opposition to the false dogmas and damnable deceits of Popery,) as that he might give to his political partisan's plan some little Church-of-England appearance of support, that the rev. gentleman separated from his clerical brethren, and "supported the Corporation on the School Question"! Who can conceive a dereliction oiduty more glaring or culpable? Why should politics ware hIE judgment on a subject so momentous to the public? Why should any motive induce him to lend the sanction of his name to an experiment which I defy him, as a minister, to defend •or uphold? Why should he jeopardise the soul of even one Protestant child in the Corporation Popery hot-beds, for the sake of supporting and countenancing a party to which in politics he is attached ? He, it may be said, only wishes to secure for Protestant children, in those schools, ull the benefits the system is ca pable of yielding, and to guard them from the contagion and abomination which forms a part of it. Yea, but if such be its character,—as confessedly it is,--why lend a hand in up holding a fabric reared with ,unholy mortar, and not rather faithfully exclaim, with his more faithful fellow-labourers, " Down with it, down with it, even unto the ground !" I would beg of the rev. gentleman to cast a glance at the champions who, knowing the power of the " sword of the Spirit, the Word of God" with which they fight, disdain lending themselves to a base and cowardly and treacherous compromise—en inglorious and dastardly truce with the enemies of God and his Christ ! Mark how erect they stand! —how undismayed their aspect ! All armed with the same weapon of heavenly temper, they proudly disdain the puny awls and knives and scissors which the Devil, from time to time, prompts man to offer for their acceptance as a substitute f or IT!--the end and object of their warfare they keep stea- Ails , in view, and despise alike the allurements of political friends (for THEY have such) and the frowns and threats of political enemies (not a few of which, as a matter of course, they had made up their minds to be assailed by) ;—but, " Non divitiis coin divite, neque factione factioso; sed cum strentia virtute, abstinenta certebant : esse, quam videri, boni malebant." Oh, they are a glorious, chivalrous, compact little body! and heartily do I, with admiring thousands of thousands, wish them God speed! And it would be a real source of joy and satisfaction to see the "deserter," (recall ing to mind the faithfulness of the cause which he has, per haps .without due consideration, abandoned,—and smote with remorse for having, perhaps involuntarily, given to the enemy a cause to blaspheme,) —weary and tired, and at the heel of a day of toil and labour, straining every nerve to reach the impregnable fortress where he knows his late associates are in the enjoyment of peace that passeth understanding! No taunt, no rebuke would greet his return;—nothing but a holy joy would possess the faithful band while they extended to him the right hand of fellowship, and blessed. God that he had been brought to see the fallacy and error of a system which he had unwitting!, been led to countenance and sup port. I am, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant. A PROTESTANT, AND NOT A CLERGYMAN. CORPORATION BATHS' CLOCK. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Slit,—l have a complaint to make with respect to the regu lating of the Corporation Baths' clock. Being a resident of the Cheshire side of the Mersey, I was returning home last evening by the five o'clock packet, and when I had passed the Old Church, and was crossing the George's Dock Gate, it wanted two minutes of five, and when I got to the slip, (having ran from the Old Church to the 'slip,) the church clock struck five, but the ferry boats had started it appeared some time previous. I instantly went to look at the Baths' clock, and it was seven minutes past jive when all the other clocks of the town would only be two minutes past five, and consequently the boatmen, going according to the Baths' clock, bad started, and I had to wait half an hour before the next boat would go. This is not the only time I have been served thus—time after time it has occurred—and, indeed, I sin not the only complainant. When I spoke to the Perry Company about it, they told me that if it was the fault of the clock, they were not to blame; I must make my complaint known to the Corporation. I did not know how to make it better known than in addressing you, and through your paper calling the attention of the Corporation to the regulation of the Baths' clock, for I can assure von it is no pleasant thing to be kept standing on the pierhead for half an hour, waiting for the next boat to start. BY inserting the above, you will oblige, yours, ifice., Woodside, Nov. 7, 1838. W. A. H. LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY. On Saturdaievenitii — folan . \ - Vrillis, Esq. delivered his fourth lecture in which he explained in an exceedingly lucid manner Newton's Theory of Gravitation, and exhibited proofs of a lunar atmosphere. The existence of gravity is at once shewn by the fall of bodies to the earth,—what it is, remains a profound mystery which has yet to be discovered. Weight however is not a property belonging to bodies themselves, as all bodies are in fact equally heavy if weighed in value. We find that bodies are heavy or light when weighed in our atmosphere in pro portion to their density, because they have then less resist. ance in reaching the earth. If we lived upon different planets we should not have the same weieht, supposing I weighed 1201bs here I should only weigh 201bs on the moon. Again, supposing we were to go to the sun, there we should weigh nearly 28 times as much, thus supposing that I weighed on the earth 1201bs, on the sun I should weigh 33481t5. The larger the mass the greater is the attraction of gravitation. Thus all matter is equally heavy, gravitation acting accord ing to density. Gravity acts inversely as the square of the distance, and its attraction appears invariably to obey this law, as do light and heat, so far as we have been able to exa mine them chemically. Newton's grand theory was that this diminution of the force of gravity by distance would cause the moon to revolve around us as she does, as well as the planets around the sun. If gravity were the same at the moon as at the surface of the earth, she would accomplish her revolution around the earth in 10 hours and 45 minutes, which of course she does not. Now gravity causes a body to be attracted towards the centre of the earth, but suppose a common ball to be propelled by such a force as to °vet come gravity, we can overcome gravity for a certain time, but it will at last come to the ground. Now we can shew the cause which a projected body will describe, for no burly can be projected in a straight line, but if the projective force be in creased, the body would go still further before it falls. Kep ler discovered that the square of the time is equal to the cube of the distance in all cases of projected bodies, so that if we takeihe time in which a planet revolves, square it, and com pare it and the cube of the distance, we shall find that there will be one constant affinity between all the bodies in the creation. We know the distance of the moon, and we know the time in which she completes her revolutions; by these means we see that it the moon were brought closer to the earth, she would revolve more rapidly around it. A mathe matician has calculated that a body going round the earth in 84 minutes, would just overcome the gravity : we find then that a body describing this orbit would pass over an arch of 4 minutes and 151 seconds. The deflection from the tangent in a minute of time is 15 feet around an inch. Now reason ing from this analogy we find that the area of the moon is similar, and therefore that the moon is carried round in her orbit by gravitation. Gravity is unintermitting—it never ceases. It acts as much upon bodies falling and upon bodies at rest. Mr. Wallis then darkened the room and introduced a num ber of beautiful transparencies, exemplifying the motion of the moon around the earth and the revolution of both around the sun. The attraction of these lectures is greater than that of any others which we have heard at the institution, and•nightly they seem to be upon the increase, for at the lecture on 4 Wednesday last, not only was the gallery com pletely filled, but the very aisles themselves were crowded with auditors. We understand that a number of fair visi tors take care to be at the institution at an early hour in order to secure good seats. DUEL AT SEACOMBE.—On Tuesday evening last, a dis cussion arose between W. D —v, Esq., and Capt. G —e, R. N., respecting the conduct of the latter, at a dinner at Seacombe, on the coronation clay. Angry words ensued, and the result was that a challenge was given to Capt. G —e, which the latter immediately accepted. Pistols having been procured, the belligerents, "on bloody deeds intent," retired to the Green. The seconds, Mr. P —y and Mr. M—x, contrived to load the pistols with powder only, which, after the ground was duly measured, and the signal given, the principals "right valiantly" discharged at each other, with out producing any effect, excepting upon their nervous system. The moon shone beautifully on the occasion, aqd the whole scene was exceedingly romantic, especially as the spectators were enabled to enjoy the fun—being "up to the trick" played upon the redoubtable heroes. It is the intention of the Roman Catholics to erect a mag nificent Cathedral in London. It is calculated that one hundred peers aarl wealthy Commoners will subscribe £lOOO each. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BRUTAL ASSAULT.—On Tuesday, at the Policsoffice, William Dunn, Catherine Dunn, and Christopher Dunn, the three Irish individuals who were remanded about a week ago, under an accusation of having inflicted serious injuries on the person of John Brennan, were again placed at the bar for further examination, the wounded man being conva lescent, though still weak and ill. The surgeon had pro nounced him entirely out of danger. Inspector Crouch stated, that, on the 29th ult., he received information that a man had nearly been killed in an affray in Johnson-street. He took a party of officers with him, went to the house of the prisoners and apprehended them. The prosecutor stated, that on Sunday night week, between ten and eleven o'clock, Ire was coming out of a house in Johnson-street, when he received a violent blow on his back, which drove him into the middle of the street. The prisoner, Catharine Dunn, rushed at him with au instrument which he believed to be a soldering iron, and struck him with all beef o, c t over the eye. He was slightly stunned by this blow, w eti was immedi ately followed by another still more violent Pow a man, he could not say whom. At the same instant be : .reived another blow on the back of his head. He fell senseless to the ground, and lost all recollection of what followed. A girl, about fourteen years of age, who saw the affray, stated that the pri soner, William Dunn, struck the first blow with a hammer as the prosecutor was leaving the house. She (witness) was going for a policeman, when she saw Catharine Dunn ad vance with an iron implement, and strike the prosecutor on the forehead. William Dunn rushed at him a second time, and struck him a furious bloW over the eye with the hammer. The complainant fell, and William Dunn jumped upon ha, breast. She did not see Christopher Dunn strike at all. Mr. Davenport, solicitor, who appeared for the prisoners, cross-examined the witness. His view appeared to be to show that the complainant kept a house of ill fame, and that the girl was of loose character. Neither of these points were established. The complainant stated, that he bad been at a chastening, but he was not intoxicated. He had seen the Dunns before, but never had a quarrel with them. A wit ness, named Croone, corroborated the testimony of the prose cutor and the girl, and swore that he saw Christopher Dunn strike the latter a blow on the back of the head with some in strument. A medical gentleman stated that he was called in to see the complainant. He found him in a very dangerous state. There was a wound on the back of the head, which be believed was a fracture, but he was not certain. The blow over the eye had broken down the skull, and at first he con sidered it impossible that the man could live. When he put his finger into the orifice, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the fractured bone, a small portion of brain ad hered to it. A friend whom he called in, agreed with him that there was no hope for the man. He considered the re covery to be most extraordinary, and the constitution of the man equally so. Mr. Davenport called Arch. M'Carthy, Charles Ford, and George Welsh, all of whom testified to having seen some row which took place previously to the assuult complaiued of, but none of them altered the evidence offered in support of th e accusation. William Dunn was committed for trial. Catharine Dunn and Christopher Dunn were ordered to pay a fine of £5 each, or, in default of pay ment, to be committed to the House of Correction for two months. It was further ordered, that Christepher Dunn should find bail that he would keep the peace, himself in £3O, and two sureties in £l5 each. A TIMID MAN.—On Tuesday, at the Police-office, an in dividual who stated that he was a master plasterer, appeared, accompanied by his solicitor, Mr. Crewe, to substan tiate a complaint against a very beautiful and well.dressed girl, who it appeared had put him in bodily fear. The com plainant, so far as bodily appearance was concerned, seemed fully able to protect himself, at least from so gentle a crea ture as the girl against whom he complained. The latter, it appeared, is a servant to a lady in Liverpool. Some time since the complainant and defendant were extremely inti mate, and the result of a long acquaintance was the seduc tion of the latter. She had an infant, for the support of which the complainant pays a certain sum weekly to the pa rish. After this occurrence he dropped the acquaintance. He now complained that she had called at , his shop and threatened to bring aloaded pistol and shoot him through the head. A few nights since, said he, I was walking along Smithdown-lane, when she met me, and presenting either a pistol or a dagger at me, d ec l a i e d s h e would have my life. I ran away as hard as I could, and she seeing two gen tlemen coming up, did not follow me. The young woman stated, that during the period of their intimacy, she bad, at various times, lent him sums of money which be never repaid. He now owed her £2l. All that he had told about the ristol was false. She had certainly called at his workshop, and requested him to let her have a little money, but she used no threats whatever. Complainant: Oh yes, you did; when you met me in Smithdown-lane, You said : now I've got you— and didn't I run away ? Defendant : Yes you did, but I did not do anything to frighten you. Complainant : Oh yes, you presented a pistol. Defendant : Oh no; I never had a pistol! Mr. Hall: I suppose she had her umbrella in her hand, and you thought she was going to shoot you with it. Mr. Crewe pressed the magistrate to make the defendant find hail. Mr. Hall seemed to think there was no reason for such a proceeding. He thought the young woman would see the propriety of not going near the complainant again. The best mode of recovering her money would be by action at law. Mr. Ct ewe (to the coniplainant) : How do you feel now in your conscience? Tell the magistrate fairly and candidly the state of your feelings.—The man here began to weep, and screwing his face into a most piteous expression of grief, he whined nut, while sobs occasionally checked his utterence,-- I f you'll believe me—Mr. Hall—l am afraid to venture out. I feel—that I am—l'm, I tell you candidly, afraid of my life. —(Laughter.) Mr. Hall : I suppose you want to send her to prison. Complainant: Yes, sir, I'm not safe while she's at liberty. Mr. Hall thought it sufficient to exact from the defendant a promise that she would never go near the timid gentleman again. The defendant made the requisite pro mise, averring, however, that she should commence an action for the recovery of her money. S-rI3I3ING.—On Tuesday, at the Police-office, Ann Ouch raue, a dissolute female, was charged with havinrassaulted Catharine Duffy and wounded her with a sharp instrument. It appeared, that, on Tuesday last the complement and the prisoner met each other in Tithebarn-street. Being old ac quaintances, they entered into conversation. A sailbrewho was known to both, joined them. With this individual Ann Cochrane began to quarrel, and it was not long before they came to blows. As both the sailor and the prisoner were much infuriated, Catharine Duffy feared that some mischief might ensue. She therefore interfered and endeavoured to part the combatants. Her efforts, however, only had the effect of increasing the wrath of Cochrane, who threatened to punish her if she did not immediately depart. The com plainant said she would soon put an end to the affray for she would fetch a police officer. She went towards Milk-street for the purpose of putting this threat into execution. Ann Cochrane, in a state of great excitement, followed her, and called several abominable names. At length seeing that the complainant was intent upon finding a police officer, she rushed at her, and exclaiming, " there, take that you dirty faggot," stabbed her twice in the neck with a knife. The pro in her defence said, she never had a knife in her hand. Sub sequently she acknowledged that she had struck the com plainant, but it was with a sharp stone. The cuts were stated to be very severe but not dangerous. Mr. Hall, animadverting on the brutality of the assault, order the pri prisoner to pay a fine of £5 and costs, or, in default of pay ment, to lie committed for two months to the House of Cor rection. THEFT BY A BUTCHER'S ASSISTANT.—CharIes Healey, a youth who has been for some time in the employ of Mr. Gilks, a butcher, who carries on an extensive business in Cleveland•square, was on Wednesday placed before Mr. Hall, charged with having robbed his master. It appears that Mr. Gilks has for a long time suspected the prisoner, in consequence of his extravagant habits; but owing to the quantity of money turned over, detection was difficult. At length the style of the prisoner's dress, and the nature of some purchases which he had made, rendered it evident that he must be obtaining much more money than his wages, by some means. He was narrowly watched; but though suspicion was strengthened, nothing was discovered sufficiently certain to warrant his apprehension. It was determined, therefore, to lay a trap for him. Accordingly Mr. Gilks and his daugh ter marked some money, and put it into the hands of a young woman of their acquaintance, with the request that a joint of meat might be sent for and purchased from the prisoner, early next morning, before Mi. Gilks went to the shop. The young woman complied with the request. Early on Wednesday morning five pounds of mutton was purchased from Healey, and paid for with the marked money. Mr. Gilks having as certained this, examined the drawer; but no money was there. Mr. Gough, one of the market constables, was sent for. He searched the prisoner, and found the two marked shillings, and one marked sixpence, paid by the young woman for the mutton. The box of the prisoner was searched, and Gough found several half-crowns and a new flute. The prisoner had also purchased clothes to the amount of £2 135., which, as well as the flute, he confessed had been paid for by money stolen from his master. The money found, including the two shillings and sixpence marked, amounted to £2 Bs. 6d., of which the prisoner said only G. were his own. The flute bad cost him 135.. He was committed for trial. 7 - PAYING DEARLY FOR KlNDNESS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a drunken, dissipated-looking woman, with a face the colour of pipe-clay, named Mary Smith,.was charged by a good-looking little Welsh woman with having defrauded her of half a sovereign. The complainant, in stating her grievance said—" She came yesterdays to porrow sixpence, which I thought I wont lent her, and gef hur what I thought was a sixpence , put it wass half a soferei g n 1 . ef her in mis take; ant as I had no one to give me atvice let it wait till this morning." Mr. Hall.—H ow d o y ou kn . .it was half a sovereign ? Complainant.—l am sure it wass s for a alien tlemans paid it to the for washing." The prisoner was asked what she had to say, and, with great volubility and with ex traordinary conciseness, gave the magistrates her name, con dition, and defence. "Please, sir, my name is Mary Smith. I was turned out of my lodgings, and wanted sixpence; I axed my neighbour there for it, and she lent it me after some scruples, and I paid it away." Being asked how she came into possession of 31 or 4s found upon her, she said she had pawned some of her clothes for the money that morning which appeared to be tru e , some pawn-tickets . being found upon her. Mr. Hall said that would show that she wanted money. No, she did not wants money, for she sent for a nokkin of gin, and was treating all night. Mr. Hall said she might have done that; on which side the mistake was he could not tell. Complainant.—l must haf gifen it her. Mr. Hall. It is a case I cannot interfere in. Discharge her. RotititNG A BARGE. — Yesterday, at the Police-office, an elderly man named John Morecroft, was charged with having robbed a barge . lying in the canal, of a q uan tity o f provi sions and wea4mg apparel. Policeman 122 stated, that about nine o'clock that morning he received information that the cabin door of a flat had been broken open, and a quantity of flour, bacon, sugar and clothes taken out. The complain ant, a real rough-spun Cbeshireman, was asked to state his complaint, but reinaiued silent, the very picture of sturdy stupidity,—Mr. Hall: Is that your jacket ? ' Complainant : Yees. Mr. Hall: Yes what ? Complainant: Thaes things belongs to me. Mr. Hall: What are you ? Complainant : Whoy hoi'm a boatman. Mr. Hall: Where did you put these things? Complainant: I't cabin loike. Mr. Hall: When did you miss them? Complainant: Last noight. The officer said he had found the stolen goods in the house of the prisoner, and had therefore taken him into custody. He said he knew nothing at all about them; the house was his son's. Mr. Hall: Does this man's son work on board your flat ? Complainant: Yees, he does sometimes. Mr. Hall : This man may be quite innocent; the sun may have taken them. Complainant: I doant think that man tuk 'em; I doant think he did. Mr. Hall: It is hicsont Com plainant: Yees. Mr. Hall: Well, you must look after the son; there is uo evidence against this man at all. Discharge him. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—The other day Mr. Lennox, fishmonger, St. John-street, on opening an oyster, found therein an English shilling ! How the coin got there is a puzzler.—Perth Paper. The Earl and Countess of Wilton returned to town on Monday last, from a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Walmer Castle. The noble earl and countess will shortly leave town for their seat in Leicestershire. Two men engaged in two different contests at Leicester, have lost their lives from being engaged in boxing matches. A verdict of manslaughter last Monday was recorded in both cases. ECONOMY IN GUN POW DER.—lnstructions have been given that the 29th Mav, the anniversary of King Charles Il.'s restoration, is no * longer to be observed by•the firing of the Tower guns. What next ? The principal alteration now making in Buckingham Pa lace is the construction of a new grand staircase, by which parties leaving the state rooms may descend without, as here tofore, meeting on the same staircase these who are arriving; by nhich much inconvenient crowding will be- avoided. At Dudley, on Friday, Mr. Paskins, formerly a school. master, and now possessed of .from £15,000 to £20,000, was held to bail in E.lOO, to tako his trial at the neat sessions, for stea;ing al,rlt two pat:_f l o of (Awn fronrau auction room in that town:` -IftiNcfrer Anwnat.