The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-23 00:00:00

I3ItISTOL in t) the for t ND GLOU EXTENSIG CALL OP XlO PER CEN' THE Committee of -Mat having Resolved, at a NI , to CALL, under the provis relative to the £5 PER SII2 London Manci Interes charged t I Under to be r barnet Miles, s. Baillii R RAILIVAI , BEING 1:5 PEI len Br Tereby Given, that t il Proprietors c tore tne ityn I :ioned BaAen t. Hoare, and/ , o and o. Gloucestershire Banking Co srs. Jones. Loyds, and Co. of Lancaster, called "'I Township of T teql-par'. awn -lane", Ps of the sz' the oca 'ten the said Ex aid, anc Boundary of t n or bi will be s k_;burch, and toresaid, at the northern bouzid, December and also t, elause9, ? SHARI le Acts of Parliament INSTALMENT of Sub- If England ft d South Wales !er of the Committee of Management, GEORGE JONES, Chairman. • ROBERT FLETCHER, Secretary. !,e rate of £) per Cent. per Annum, will be arties who may remain in arrear for this Call, named 11th day of December. rugs Building; Bristol, Vorember, 1841. 4EREBY GIVEN, that app cation is nade to Parliament, in e ensuing ior Maintaining and Repai g, as Turn s, certain Road, lying and bein n the Extra ,w I, ip of Toxteth-par in the county " Park Road", co mencing at the , bet tn the said Extr -paroChial Place the 'arish of Liacr 001, in the said county, at or near Saint James' Church, d running thence to the southern boundary between the 4ltid Extra-parochial Place or Township and the Township of Garston, in the parish of Childwall, in the said county, at or near a certain Gate there, called the " Aigburth Gate" ; and also a certain 'tio• and being in the said Extra-parochial called " Smeatham", immencing at the point extra-parochial Place or and of the Townships of West of Walton-on-the-Hill, in the said rtree, in the parish of Childwall afore certain Messuage, called Woodcroft, in Richard Rathbone, Esquire, and running sterly direction, to the eastern boundary ,tra-parochial Place or Township and the rtree aforesaid, at or near a certain Dwell- DVA , in the occupation of John Montgomery, a certain other Road, lying and being in hial Place or Township of Toxteth-park, .ochial Place or Township and the aforesaid, at the point where the art of Smeatham, otherwise Smith ] lies in the said Township of West a southerly direction, along Borough of Liverpool, to road joins a certain lane, in the said - Iled Ullett-lane near a certain - Higher Lodge, in the occu- And it is intended by Tolls , ay of Loan, on the security of such ntaining and repairing such Roads ; a exceptions from the payment of other rights and privileges ; and also arties who shall be willing to sell the id Heriditaments, within the said Township, for the erection of Toll Houses which said Roads, together will be deposited with the i County, at his Office, in re the thirtieth day of f such plans, sections, and ,sited with the Clerk of the ' Walton- on-the- Hill, at Walton-on-the- Hill th the Clerks of Saint James's Church, Saint -ch, an(' Saint Michael's Church, in nn o before the thirty-first day .ovember, one thousand eight this twelfth day of '''' and fort ACES, MYERS, and RIGGE, Solicitors II tended to HEREBY GIVEN, that application is in be made to Parliament, in the ensuing See n- leave to bring in a Bill, or Bills, to alter and amend ssed in the twenty-first year of e reign of his George the Second, intitule , " An Act for f a Church in the town of verpool, in the of Lancaster, and for enl ening and clean 3of the said town, and for eping and main taining a nightly Watch there ;" and, so, another Local Act, passed in the second year of the r ign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled, " An Act for Building two new Churches and providing Burial Places within the town of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, and for the better preserving the Pavements of the streets in the said town, and for ascertaining the fares and prices to be paid to Carters. Carmen, Hackney Coachmen, and Chairmen, and for regulating their behaviour within the said town ; " and to alter and amend and extend to the whole of the Municipal Borough of Liverpool a Local Act, passed in the twenty- Sixth year of the reign of his said Majesty King George the Third, intituled, " An Act for opening, making, widening, 'id altering certain Streets, Passages, and Places within the Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster ; for _ e inying the said town with fresh and wholeseme Water ; for removing and preventing Nuisances and Annoyances therein ; for appointing additional Market-places; and for extending so much of the powers of an act, of the second year of his present Majesty, as relates to Hackney Coachmen, Chairmen. Carters. and Porters, to a certain distance beyond the liberties of the said town ; " and to alter and amend ano ther Local Act, passed in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of his said Majesty King George the Third, intituled, " An Act for enlarging and varying some of the powers contained in certain Acts of Parliament relating to the Watching, Lighting, and Cleansing the Streets and other Places within the town of Liverpool, and for removing and preventing Nuisances and Annwyances therein ; " and, also, another Local Act, passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign of his said Majesty King George the Third, intituled, " An Act for abolishing the payment of certain Tolls, called Ingates and Ontgates, collected at the several entrances into the town of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, and of certain Tolls and Stallage now payable in the Markets and Fairs there, and for granting Other Tolls and Stallage in lieu thereof, and for the better regulation of the said Markets and Fairs ; n another Local Act, passed in the first year of the his Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, ..ct for reviving, extending, and varying the powers of an Act passed in the twenty sixth year of his late Majesty King George the Third, for making and widening certain Streets, Passages, and Places in the town of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, and for several other purposes in the said Act mentioned. and also for further improving the said town ;" and, also, another Local Act, passed in the sixth year of the reign of his said Majesty King Geor g e the Fourth, intituled, "An Act for the better regulation of Buildings in the town of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, and for authorizing the makingof Byelaws, Rules, and Regulations for Vessels frequenting the Docks, Basins, and Quays belonging to the Corporation there ;" and, also, another Local Act, passed in the said sixth year of the reign of his said Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, " An Act for the further improvement of the Port, Harbour, and Town of Liverpool, and for altering, extending, and amend in the several acts relating thereto," so far only as respects the power to appropriate particular Piers. Jetties, Slips, and Stairs to and for Steam-vessels, and the Power to make Or ders, Rules, and Byelaws, for regulating the use of Piers, Docks, Basins, Wharfs, Quays, Jetties, Slips, and St a i rs ; and, also, another Local Act, passed in the seventh year of the reign of his said Majesty King George the Fourth, inti tuled, " An Act for widening and improvina• certain streets in the town of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancas ter, for the further prevention of nuisances and annoyances in the said town, for the regulation of Weighing Machines, Weights, and Measures, and the establishment of a Fire Police therein ;" and, also, another Local Act, passed in the rourth and fifth years of the reign of his late Majesty King the Fourth, intituled, An Act for amending the roceedings and practice of the Court of Passage of the Bo )ugh of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster ;" id, also, another LoCal.Act, passed in the session of the th and sixth years of the reign of his said late Ma ty King William 'the Fourth, intituled, "An Act altering, amending, and extending the powers and pro ons of an Act of the sixth year of his late Majesty King rge the Fourth, for the regulation of Buildings in the 3 of Liverpool, and for the other purposes therein men and for granting further and additional powers the improvement and regulation of the said town, the preservation of Property therein from Fires and wise ;" and, also, another Local Act, passed in the ses f the sixth and seventh years of the reign of his said lajebty King William the Fourth, intituled, " An Act tending and improving the maintenance of the Fire in the Borough of Liverpool ;" and, also, another Net, passed in the sixth and seventh years of the f his said late Majesty King Williatn the Fourth, " An Act to amend and render more effectual itssed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of 'nt Majesty, intituled, ' An Act for amending the gs and practice of the Court of Pas-age of the bo- Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, and n Act passed in the twenty-fifth year of the reign Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An e more easy and speedy recovery of small Debts, and port of Liverpool, and liberties thereof, in mlatine of Lancaster; and to give further power cry of small Debts within the borough of Li another Local Act, passed in the fir a Local Ac Majesty E the Buildir county sing ti town of I •eign of ' An A g Majestir Queen Victoria, Air altering, amending, improving, and extending the provisions of certain Acts of Parliament re lating to the town of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster;" and, also, another Local Act, passed in the first and second years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, " An Act for amending certain Acts relating to the Civil Court of -Record of the borough of Liverpool, and Improving the proceedings thereof;" and to take powers for improving the dwellings of the working classes, and other small dwellings, now erected and to be hereafter erected in the borough, by provisions for securing to such dwellings the convenience of privies and ashpits, where the same are or may be wanted, and better ventilation, where required, and for enforcing, where necessary, the cleansing of such dwellings and conveniences, and the draining thereof and the cleansing of cesspools, and forertforcing the flagging of courts, alleys, and passages into courts, and other passages, and the con struction of proper drains and channels therein, and by pro visions for enforcing the better construction of the dwell ings of the working classes, and other small dwellings hereafter to he built in the borough, and the latter and more open construction of courts, alleys, and passages of the dwellings of the working-classes and other small dwellings hereafter to be m a d e , and by provisions for restricting the letting or using of cellars for habitation in cases in which such occupancy would be injurious to health, and by such other provisions as may be expedient ; and to alter and amend an Act passed in the thi r d year of the reign of her Majesty, intituled , "An Act f or a l ter i ng, amending, con , and enlar g ing the provisions of certain Acts re he regulation of Buildings in the borough of Liver -ire powers to prevent, or limit, or restrict, - .terments in the burial places within ,001, upon such terms with the pro. axes therein as may appear to Parlia- Ind to charge the costs of such corn :r expenses of carrying the said powers )rough parochial Fund and the prop er poor of the parish, township, or 'lace may be, or one of such funds; cough of Liverpool the powers, and provisions of an Act reign of his late Majesty ":fin Act for improving 3 c l ( t;rop and of an Act the se of ,tidnonld An .s third years of the i ;" Act for further nor said Majesty, intituled , Metropolis ;" and of improving the Police lu and near the an Act passed in the cession of the secon her • said Majesty, intituled, iand third years of Police Courts in the Metropolis;" , :k u n a A n d c t of an A ct passed regulating the iin the session of the third and fourth years of the reign said Majesty, intituled, "An Act fo r better defining her gthe powers of Justice within the Metropolitan Police Detitcite,s, or such of the said powers, clauses, limitations, and provisions as may be deemed tit and proper to be so Muted. molidating, Lacing to ti pool';" Ar further is i of Liver]: t and proper; he tenth f hi ear of the intituled, King George t the Police in id near the I this thirteenth day of November, 1841. RD. RA,DCLIFFE, Toolot-sloth of Liverpool, Solicitor , LL t 1 the DOIANr. STAR INN, NORTH JOHN-STREET, CORNER OF DALE-STREET. LIVERPOOL. WILLIAM FAIRCLOUGH (late of t Wavertree Coffee-house) takes the earliest op rtunity of re turning thanks to his Friends, Customer , and the Public, for the very liberal support he has rece . ed since his com mencement in the above Establishment W. F. be g s leave to state that an 0 i nar y i s p re p are d at Half-past Twelve and Half-past One o clock. Hot Joints from Twelve to Five. Steaks, Chops, and Soups at all hours. ' Wines, Spirits, and Malt Liquors of th e 'b es t qua li ty. Travellers and Commer c ial Gentlem en accommodate4f Good Beds. MILLINERY & FRENCH STAY ESTABLIS MENT, 122, BOLD-STREET, YOUR DOORS ABOVE COL QUITT-STR ,T. Air RS. CUTTER begs to direct the attenti of her Friends in. and the Ladies to her large and ele nt selection of WINTER BONNETS, for Ladies and C Idren, which she can confidently recommend, at unusually ow prices, having purchased her materials, particularly elvets, on very ad vantageoua term:. Grateful for the ry liberal patronage and support hitherto received, Mrs. begs to inform those Ladies who could not get into her Rooms on the days of her showing Fashions, on account of the great number assembled, she is receiving from her Agent in London, on whose taste and judgment she can rely, a constant supply of the newest and most fashionable GOODS, in BONNETS, CAPS, HEAD DRESSES, &c. &c. Wanted immediately, a MILLINER of taste and expe rience, to whom a Liberal Salary will be given. Vacancies for an In-door APPRENTICE, & IMPR6VER. CURED. DEAFNESS CURED. MRS. GARDNER, AURIST, from Lon , has the honour respectfully to announce, that ' consequence of the numerous applications which have be n made to her, for an extension of the period to which sh had intended to limit her stay in Liverpool, Mrs. G. has de arrangements so that she may be consulted on all Dise es of the Ear for a short time longer, at 75, RENSRAW-qT ET. The success - which has attended h practice during the last fourteen years, in various parts the United Kingdom and on the Continent, having, by its innocence and efficacy, insured her the confidence of the public and the patronage of the Faculty (as attested by certificates both oral and do cumentary), any further comment on her part is unnecessary, and she merely begs it to be borne in mind that, in cases beyond the reach of art, her opinion may be obtained (per sonally) without the usual fee. The late Dr. G.'s Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Ear, may be had at her residence, as usual. Extract from the report of the East London Institution for the Cure of Deafness : " Upwards of 200 cases have been cured during the last six months, and we have no hesitation in avowing that our success may be mainly attributed to our having, in most instances, discontinued the dangerous system of operating. and our having adopted Mrs. Gardner's new mode of treat ment by external applications." GAS ! GAS!! GAS ! ! ! A SAVING OF ONE FOURTH IN A S CH ANDELCERS, WITH WATER SLIDES, Warranted perfect and superior, at one-third less than the Gas Companies' Prices. This fact can be proved on inspection, at GLASGOW HOUSE, 53, CHURCH-STREET. CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE STOCK NOW SRLLING OFF, as the Lease expires, At GLASGOW HOUSE, 53, CHURCH-STREET. ROSEWOOD WORK BOXES. Lot 1 360 Ladies' real rosewood Work Boxes, at 4s. each, 2 240 Ditto, ditto, larger sizes, at ss. . 3 168 Ditto, ditto, very good articles, at,9s. 4 96 Ditto, ditto, lined with watered silk, at lls. and 15s 5 14 Splendid Nine Guinea Work Boxes, at £6 10s. each TEA CADDIES. G 125 Real Rosewood Tea Caddies, at 3s. and Gs. each. 7 70 Superior Ditto, in Ebony and Rosewood, at 10s. &1 is _ TEA. CHESTS. _ _ _ 8 56 Rosewood Chests, with cut basins, well worth 305., selling at 20s. each. 9 52 Ditto very superior articles, at 275. (Some of these are beautifully inlaid with pearl.) 10 8 Splendid Chests, in Ebony and Rosewood, at a great sacrifice PORTABLE DESKS. 11 128 Real Rosewood and Mahogany Desks, at 10s. & 12s. 12 49 Very prime articles at 16s. and 18s. 13 36 Beautifully inlaid with Pearl, 225., 245., and 275. 14 90 Splendid Ladies' and Gentlemen's, from £3 to £7, at a serious reduction. LADIES' DRESSING CASES. 15 48 In real Rosewood, at 18s. each. 16 52 Inlaid with Pearl. at 20s. 17 35 With Jewel-drawer, and lined with Silk Velvet, at 328. 18 A great variety, from £4 10s. to £8 6s. _ _ GENTLEMEN'S DRESSINGT6ASES. 19 34 Fitted with Rogers' Cutlery, with Brushes complete, at 325. 20 129 In Mahogany or Rosewood, at various prices, from 325. to £6 15s. Great Sacrifices are being made on the Papier Mache Goods. The Plated Goods are selling at 25 per cent. off the Manufacturers' Prices. The Reduction is immense on the whole of the Stock at GLASGOW HOUSE, 53, CHURCH-STREET. N.B.—Closes at Seven o'clock. IMPOLICY AND CRUELTY OF NEGLECTING PUBLIC HEALTB.—It is computed that half the deaths of the in habitants of the globe are produced by fever of various kinds —the amount of intensity of this in a district will pretty ac curately indicate the condition of the air respired by its inhabitants. I am aware that in localities where masses of human beings are impacted—where no attention is paid to ventilation—where decaying refuse or excrementitious matter is allowed to accumulate (and that this is too frequently the case, I shall take an early oppertunity of proving,) the in evitable result must be the deterioration of the surrounding atmosphere. The deterioration having attained a certain degree of intensity, leaves the evidences—the records of its results in the pages of the historian—in the huge masses of misery it has created—and in the wide -spreading desolation it has occasioned. The magnitude of the result in London, if that magnitude be estimated by the numbers attacked, is not slight. From returns received from the Bethnal Green and Whitechapel Unions, it appears that during the year 1834, there occurred of fever cases— In the Bethnal Green Union In the Whitechapel Union 4,641 Thus it appears medical officers attached to these two Unions alone have attended no less than 4,611 fever But these returns include only the persons attacked with fever, irho applied to the parish for relief. Fever, it it notorious, has prevailed extensively in both these districts among people above the rank of paupers, among people of the middle class, and, in numerous instances, even in the families of the tpealthy.—So extreme bas been the social dis order, and so abject is the poverty of some of the places which are now the seats of disease, that great numbers of the dwellings have been entirely abandoned by the lease holders. This statement affords a painful proof of the close, the inseparable connection existing between physical agen cies producing disease, and their demoralising results.— Though the power of mere circumstances can never be abso lute over a rational and responsible being—though we never can be quite bereft of the means of making ourselves better or worse ; still it is not to be denied that upon circumstances depend the moral and social elevation cr depression of all sorts and conditions of mankind in the mass. Let circum stances be favourable, virtue and happiness will prevail—let them be adverse—vice and misery will abound.—Gatherings from Grave Yards, by G. A. Walker, Surgeon. FALLS OF TILE CoNwAv.—The sun was gently declin ing when I reached that point in the Holyhead-road, from which I struck off across the fields to view the Falls of the Conway. The ear of the wanderer is instructed of their proximity by the noise of rushing waters, but the immediate neighbourhood of this wonderful scene is more directly indi cated by a thin plantation of young timber, so widely dis persed as not to interrupt the growth of the green herbage, and the pale primroses and gay wild flowers that everywhere invite his attention. A narrow path winds down the decli vity amongst the trees, that thicken into a forest as he ap proaches the table rocks upon which he first pauses to con template a subject combining so many new features of the sublime and beautiful. A vast circular opening in the high lands, lined by perpendicular granite rocks, discloses a mag nificent hall, stupendous in height, and deepening into almost impenetrable gloom. On each side rude masses of rock project themselves, assuming something like architec tural shapes, and dividing at intervals the stern channelled curtain of the gnlph, give to the whole the character of a building formed by a giant hand, and moulded after some - savage taste.- Two huge fragments, at the extreme height, rear themselves like stern sentinels on opposite sides through which the foaming cataract tumbles with headlong fury,giving light and life to the supreme wildness and solitude of the place. A capacious basin, hollowed by time and the cease less action of the elements, receives the boiling flood, which here for a while stays its headlong fury, and becomes distri buted amongst numerous stony billows. Again the accumu lated waters overleap their barriers, and when they rush for , rei level ee r d nl b ino rockst o t onAwme At the a m tebhnr e p eedy a o t t i eiden throughyt q time t c h u e r r c e o n n t fl, deep u s ec p nh o ca t s t a i o n sfg the till n d Lt springing iheedyr rwe aiwith :t o tt v ih e i ee r i ui p e a t i l subside into ittoth o e ne Fa c i a ls season ar es a o m niad considerably di m i nished the force of the waters : Conway, lm the cl d e r a y r the broad masses of rock which everywhere rear themselves, firstlstepdpeescdenfrt a m ffrd o o ae e t d safe oa footing for a faonr r f d e tp c ha t el e a a e dt u hv r ee i n t fl y t y ou . — orre F rii, ro f at m nhde lbscoe' a North Wales, new editio in n ,% ho died Estate of Estate of ROIERT RAWLINSON, late by, in the county of Lancaster, Farmer, er,, on the 15th day of January last, or upon tb:. CHRISTIANA RAWLINSON, Widow tout who died on the 1604 day of Septemeer last, are here quired to send in particulars of suety Claims to Mr. GEORGE ASHTON, Auctioneer, Prescot; and in default thereof they will be excluded all benefit of the Estate. EDMUND WARD, Solicitor to the Administratrix of Mrs. Rawlinson. Prescot, 19th November, 1841. LIVERPOOL (NEW) FISH COMPANY. TN consequence of the favourable terms on whi • the Di rectors of the late Liverpool Fish Company ere autho rised, at the last meeting of the Shareholders, . sell the Fish Hall, Fishing Smacks, and Stores, and t.. generally ex pressed regret at the dissolution of the la Company, and the desire that a new Company might e med, by many of the Members, the Gentlemen cotn • g the Provisional Committee determined to purchase the •hole of the remain ing Property belonging to the late $?. mpany, consisting of the FISH HALL, VAULTS, an. OFFICES connected therewith, and FIFTEEN FIS NG SMACKS, with FISHING TACKLE and STORES, and form a new JOINT STOCK COMPANY for the same purposes for which the late Company was established, and they have, therefore, entered into a Contract with the Directors for such purchase for the sum of X 6,790. To show the very advantageous terms on which the Com mittee have made the purchase, it will be unnecessary to say more than that the Purchase Money of the Vessels does not amount to one-half of what they originally cost the late Company, and the Fish Hall. Vaults, and Offices to little more than two-thirds of the original cost; that the Boats are well found in Stores, most of them in very good condi tion, and may be seat to the Fishing Grounds at a very tri fling expense. The Committee propose that the new Company shall be called " The Liverpool Fish Company." The Capital of the Company to consist of 700 Shares of £l2 each, £lO of which shall be immediately paid up, and the Company be considered as formed as soon as two-thirds of the Shares are taken and £lO per Share paid thereon. Nearly 200 of the Shares have been taken by Shareholders in the late Company, and the £lO per Share paid. The remainder of the Shares will be allotted to such parties as may apply for Shales before the 30th November instant. Printed Prospectuses. with the ❑ames of the Provisional Committee, and further information may be obtained, on and after Tuts DAy, at the Fish Hall, Murray-street, where applications for Shares are to be sent, addressed to the Chair man of the Provisional Committee. On Sunday the King's Head public-house, in Eastchean was surrounded by a larger concourse of persons t' sembled there since the time that elapsed between the corn mittal of the murder and the holding of the coro ner ' s i nquest on the late Mr. J ames B ur d on . Th e re. excitement was pro duced in consequence of its becoming generally known that Mrs. Sarah Blakesley, the unfortunate widow of the mau who expiated his offence in front of Newgate on Monday morning last, had expired. The unhappy woman's death makes the fourth life that has fallen a sacrifice to this domestic tracedy, viz., Mr. Burd Mri. Blakesley and her male c:,. whom she was prematurely delivered, and the author of th dire catastrophe, Robert - Blakesley. Mrs. .han has as- Blakesley, his widow, was in the 25th year of her age, and was the daughter of a Mr. Atkins, who for several years carried on the trade of a respectable livery-stable keeper. She was formerly in the service of Lord Surrey, and quitted her situation to assist her sister and Mr. Burdon in the public business. Blakesley's first acquaintance with her arose out of his occasionally visiting the King's head with some gentlemen connected with the Corn-Exchange. An intimacy sprung up between them about 12 months since, and it is said that a very strong attachment existed between them. It is already known that Blakesley, a few minutes before he left the condemned cell for the last time, declared that it was his intention to have murdered his wife, but no explanation of his fatal purpose has been. hitherto conveyed to the public. The only declaration he made in this respect was to the Ordinary of Newgate, to whom he stated that it was his determination, as they could not live together, " to die at the same time," adding, that at the time and before his commission of the offence it was his full conviction be would be executed. From all the inquiries that the reporter has made, it ap pears to he untrue that the intelligence of her husband's execution was made known to her, but she informed her medical attendant a few days before the extreme sentence of the law was carried out that she dreamt of her husband's ignomihious death. Mrs. Blakesley expired on Thursday last, and on Saturday an inquest was held on the body, when the surgeon stated that the deceased did not die from miscarriage though it was consequent upon the wound. If she had not been stabbed, he said, it was not likely she would have miscarried. After some further evidence, the jury without hesitation returned a verdict of wilful murder against Robert Blakesley. Mr. Burdon, it is stated, gave £3OOO for the purchase of the lease of the King's Head, Eastcheap, and since the mur der several persons have offered, under the impression that Mrs. Burdon would leave the house, an increased premium of from £5OO to £lOOO ; but she has stated, in answer to the inquiries of the ward beadle, that it is her intention to carry on the business, and for that purpose to apply to the licensing aldermen for a renewal of the licence on the next licensing day. THE LAST CENSUS The number of houses in England is, inhabited, 2,758,295; uninhabited, 162,756 ; building, 25,882. The number in Wales, inhabited, 188,196 ; uninhabited, 10,133 ; building, 1,769. In Scotland, inhabited, 503,357 ; uninhabited, 24,307; building, 2,760. In the islands of the British Seas, 19,159 inhabited; 865 uninhabited; and 220 building. Grand totals for the whole of Great Britain-3,464,007 inhabited; 198,061 uninhabited ; 30,631 building,—altogether, 3,682,699 houses. In 1831 the number of inhabited houses was 2,866,595 ; uninhabited, 133,331; building, 27,553; total, 3,027,479. POPULATION OF THE ENGLISH COUNTIES. InlB3l. In 1841. 95483 .. 107937 145389 .. ]60226 146529 .. 155989 143955 .. 164509 334391 .. 395300 300938 .. 341269 169681 .. 177913 237170 .. 272202 494478 .. 533731 159252 .. 174743 253910 .. 324277 317507 .. 344995 387019 .. 431307 111211 .. 114438 143341 .. 157237 53192 .. 58699 479155 .. ' 548161 1336854 .. 1667064 197003 .. 215855 317465 .. 362717 Bedford Berks Bucks.. Cambridge . Chester Cornwall. Cumberland.... Derby Devon . Darset Durham Essex Gloucester Hereford. Herts Huntingdon Kent Lancaster Leicester. . Lincoln Middlesex .. Monmouth Norfolk Northampton Northumberland Nottingham Oxford Rutland Salop ...... Somerset. 1358330 .. 98130 .. 390054 .. 179336 .. 222912 .. 225327 .. 152156 19385 .. 222938 _ 404200 , ".. 314280 410512 .. '196317 .. 486334 272310 336610 .. 55041 .. 240156 .. 211365 .. 1371359 .. POPULATION OF WALES. Males. 24,369 26,911 31,997 50,795 39 6OO 44,617 33,636 89,028 19,247 34,252 40,343 12,738 POPULATION OF SCOTLAND Males. 89,528 1576616 131349 199055 98886 230268 249773 161573 21340 2346.4 1 436002 354940 510206 315129 582613 299770 402121 56469 260007 233484 1591574 Southampton (Hants) Stafford .. Suffolk Surrey . . Sussex. Warwick Westmoreland Wiltshire Worcester; York Counties Anglesea... Brecon .. Cardigan . Carmarthen Carnarvon . Denbigh Flint Glamorgan.. Merioneth Montgomery Pembroke .. Radnor .... - - - Counties. Aberdeen Argyle.. Ayr .. Banff Berwick .. Bute Caithness Clackmannan Dumbarton Dumfries Edinburgh Elgin (Moray) Fife Forfar Haddington . Inverness Kincardine Kinross Kirkcudbright (Stewartry of) Lanark Linlithgow Nairn • Orkney and Shetland Peebles Perth . Renfrew Ross and Cromarty • • • Roxburgh Selkirk Stirling Sutherland Wigtown Barracks 47,654 78,970 23,425 16,527 7,108 16,993 9,331 . 22,505 . 34,097 102,709 . 16,071 65,735 79,234 17,253 45,306 15,804 4,194 18,838 208,369 13,766 4,556 26,564 5,122 65,339 72,725 36,442 21,957 3,972 41,070 11,307 20,424 LANCASHIRE. Ashton and Oldham (part of) Blackburn Bolton Burnley Bury Chorley Chorlton Clitheroe (part of) Fylde Garstanz fl aslingden Lancaster Leigh Liverpool Manchester Orroskirk . Prescot Preston Rochdale Salford Stockport (part of) Todmorden (part of) Ulverstone Warrington West Derby Wigan Worsley Females. 26,521 26,384 36,383 55,687 41,468 44,674 32,911 84,434 19,991 34,968 47,919 12,448 Females. 66,984 37,972 49,169 27,414 39,428 18,999 49,599 FREE TRADE FALSEHOODS.—The sufferings which un fortunately at present exist in many of the manufacturing towns are made the themes of grossly exag gerate d t i rades in favour of free trade. Birmingham has been represented to and assignments are daily forty be miserable enough ; but Sheffield . in particular was said to be literally depopulated and ruined. "Whole streets of shops and houses remain tenantless. Trade comparatively is at a events.stand- s ti 1 , 1 ; h e Bankru ptcies ,priprison iis ch failures,with occupiedlie/citry shilling debtors, and the artisans who have saved a few pounds are selling their' few sticks of furniture to enable them to emigrate." But find that—" In mercury, we and reckon ingwhat is the truth. According to an able and authentic analysis lB3 i Sheffield contained in t five inmates to . each house, the population would be heShe eB, e 3 l 3 d l 91,655. This is within 37 of the numbers given in the census of that year, the actual population being 91,692. In 1811, the census shows a population of 110,891, an d, suppos ing these to be divided into families averaging five in number, as in the year 1831, the inhabitants of Shef field would be found occupying 22,178 houses. Now. what is the actual number of houses occupied accord ing to the late returns ? Not 22,1 / 8, but 22,753 - i so that instead of there being • whole streets of !mu ses tenantless, ' as compared with the state of things in 1831, the people of Sheffield occupy 575 houses over and above what th e y wou ld have occupied (allowing for the increase in population) had their condition been neither better nor worse than in 1831. That there is a great number of emp t y houses in Sheffield is quite true, and it would be strange were it not so. Since 1831, at which time only 19 houses out of 20 were tenanted, the actual increase in population required the building of 3,840 houses, taking the families at five, as in 1831, whereas we have built 6,731 houses. In 1831, we had houses capable of containing, at five to a family, 4,570 souls more than the actual population, but we have now houses sufficient to domicile 18,989 beyond the numbers given in the rece n t census—in other words, we have built houses for 14,200 people beyond what were required." The total population of England, according to the census just completed, is 7,321,875 males ; 7,673,633 females—total, 14,995,508 ; that of \Vales, 447,533 males ; 463,788 females total, 911.321; that of Scotland, 1,246,427 males ; 1,382,530 females—total, 2,628,957 ; and that of the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm, Jothon, and Man, 57,598 males ; 66,481 females—total, 124,079. These numbers, including 4,003 male s, and 893 females, ascertained t o h ave been travelling by railways and canals on the night of June 6, make the grand totals 9,077,436 males; and 9,587,325 females. The population, therefore, of Great Britain, amounts to 18,664,761 persons. The returns only include such parts of the army, navy, and merchant seamen as were at the time of the census within the kingdom on shore. The increase of the population, as compared with the re turns of 1831, is at the rate of 14.5 per cent. for England ; 13 per cent. for Wales ; for Scotland, 11.1; for the islands in the British seas, 19.6 ; making the increase for the whole of Great Britain 14 per cent., being less than that of the 10 years ending 1831, which was 15 per cent. In 1811 the increase during the previous 10 years in England, was 14k per cent. ; in Wales, 13 per cent. ; and in Scotland, 14 per cent. In 1821, the increase for England was 174 per cent.; for Wales, 17 per cent; and for Scotland, 16 per cent. In 1831, the increase was for Eng land, 16 per cent.; for Wales, 12 per cent.; for Scotland, 13 per cent.; and for the islands in the British seas, 15.8 per cent. THE MURDERS AND SUICIbE AT BURN LEN (From the'2lfanchester Guardian of Saturday.) On Wednesda before John Hai•graves, Esq., vision, and a highly respeetabl, Wm. Sharman(oiShamer) the 60th Rifles, and Isabella Territt at the ba district. from their . evic ri great number of witu mg attachment to the young m MURDER OF A MAN_ BY HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER! (Abridged from the Stamford Mercury) The case of poisoning at Lutton has acquired still more interest, it beinm ' now believed that the dau g ht er an d w if e are the poisoners. The following are the facts stated in evidence at the coroner's inquest : Thomas Johnson, the deceased, was managing farming_ man to George Clarke, Esq„ of Long Sutton, and lived on that gentleman's farm, in the parish of Lutton. In the same house lived Ann Johnson, his wife, AMy Johnson Marshall, his daughter by a former wife prior to marriage, and George Whitelem and Hervey Burgess, lodgers, who worked on the same farm. The unfortunate man had lived very unhappily with his family. On Monday week the wife, after having seen some puddings for dinner made by the daughter put into the pqt, went to a neighbour's, where she stopped tea. The young men went in to dinner first, and fancying something peculiar in the taste of their pudding, did not eat the whole; but Johnson ate all. There were 71bs or 81bs of arsenic in the house, which had been procured for the purpose of dressing the seed wheat, and it is supposed that a part of this had been mixed in the pudding of Johnson, and that the others, being boiled in the same pot, became strongly impregnated with it. Directly - after eating his dinner, Johnson became ill, and when his wife returned home a little after six o'clock, she found him vomiting in the yard. On seeing her lie said, "I am poisoned." She says she answered, " Oh, Johnson, how can you think so ? you must be a wicked man to think so." The poor man remained dreadfully ill till about eight o'clock, when, being no longer able to bear the agony he was enduring, he attempted to go to the stable to send Burgess for medical assistance, but unable to get there, the wife went, and told the man to go to Long Sutton, to Mr. Ewen, the surgeon, and to tell him that Johnson was taken ill of his old complaint, and he was to give him some more of the medicine he had had before, as it then did him good. Mr. Ewen in consequence sent the medicine, and said he would call and see Johnson in the - morning. Burgess, on the way home, however, was taken ill, and with great difficulty crawled back. Whitelem also, who had been to Lutton, came home very ill, and they both went to bed. The wife and daughter of the victim remained in the house, while he was groaning and moaning dreadfully till about eleven o'clock ; the young men heard him, but were so ill themselves that they could not get out of bed. At last, the daughter called a neigh bour (Mr. Savage), who went to the house, when he was told by Johnson that he was poisoned. Mr. Savage immediately rode to Long Sutton for Mr. Ewen, but before he returned Johnson was dead. After the departure of Mr. Savage, the suffering man, in his extreme agony, leaped out of bed, dropped down on the 'floor, and died; and the unfeeling women, before the arrival of Mr. Savage with Mr Ewen, had laid out the corpse on the bed. Mr. Ewen attended to the young men, and they are recovering. _ The wife on her examination before the jury, was little affected ; and when the daughter was examined, she exhibited not the least sign of feeling or sorrow ; she appeared callous alike to her present situation, and to the common feeling of humanity. Notwithstanding the suspicious circumstances attending the death of the poor fellow, the wife and daughter were not taken into custody, and when bis body was buried it was followed to the grave by his other relatives in the company of his generally-believed murderers. The contents of the stomach were analysed, as was also the liquor in which the puddings were boiled, and both were found to he impregnated with arsenic. As no one had access to the provisions but the wife and daughter, this circumstance coupled with their unfeeling conduct, satisfied the jury of their guilt, and they returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against the prisoners. FIRE IN WOOLWICH DOCKYARD On Saturday morning, about half-past three o'clock, one of the dockyard police, observing some smoke issuing from a building used for the purpose of making Grant's patent fuel, on a close approach to it found it was in flames, and imme diately gave the alarm. The dockyard engines were promptly brought to the spot, and the alarm bell rung, the engines of the Royal Marines, Royal Artillery, and Royal Sappers and Miners were soo n p resent, and an. excellent supply of water being obtained from the basin almost close to the building, the spread of the devouring element to the engine house was prevented, but no exertions could save the wooden buildin g in which the fire or i g i nate d , and consequen tly it was burnt to the ground. The fire is supposed to have originated from one of the iron pipes under a portion of the wood having become over heated on the previous day, and the wood having from that cause such a degree of heat communicated to it, as ultimately caused it to ignite. It is worthy of o bservation that the fires used at this work are always put out about four o'clock in the afternoon, so that the fire, if it originated through them, must have remained twelve hours undiscovered. During the fire a fatal accident took place in the basin. A young man, 17 years of age, named John Johnston, a sea man on board the James and Elisabeth schooner, lying in the river, alongside the wharf wall of the dockyard, on hear ing the alarm of fire, came on shore, and the fog was so thick at the time that he walked into the basin, and striking his 11 , 3 ad, it is snpposed, upon an iron chain, was so stunned, that although a good swimmer, he was drowned, and his body was not recovered until half an hour afterwards. Two ma rines also fell into the water from a similar cause, but they were promptly taken out. The officers and crews of the Devastation and the other vessels in her majesty were promptly on the majesty's ser v i ce i n th e r iver and in the basin spot, and, by their able assistance, were of great service in checking the spread of the fire. The loss will not be very great, as the b u ildi n g was only constructed of wood, and, fortunately, it was in a manner detached from the other parts of the yard. [According to subsequent particulars we are glad to per ceive that no apprehension s are entertained that the destruc tion was the work of an incendiary. The assertion that an alarming fire had taken place in the Royal Arsenal is with out the slightest foundation, and it ought to be known to the public at a distance that the Royal Arsenal is fully a mile distant from the dockyard; and nearly two miles from the ' spot where the fire originated in this instance.] naming; last, at ten o'clock, as we an - A* that day, an inquest was held coroner of the Blackburn di y, on the bodies of Lieut. n d Robert Morris, of held as attended by the makistrates of tbe rt Morris had formed a very ritt ; and so jealous was he, that he was quite incensed when he received a letter from her husband, a private soldier in the 97th regiment, quartered in Corfu. He has also fre quently said bat bis master, Mr. O'Grady, was an' inter loper in his affections. In the latter part of Sunday, Mor ris appeared very much excited, and complained that his master had spoken angrily to him at mess. Mrs. 'Ann Ap pleton Hadden, the mother of the deceased woman, stated, that the first time, on Sunday night, that witness suspected there was something wrong, was about seven o'clock. After the mess was over, Morris came into the kitchen, and he looked very wild. This was about eight o'clock ; Isabella was also in at the time. Witness asked what was the mat ter with him, and he complained of something that Mr. O'Grady had said to him during mess. She also asked her daughter what was the matter; and deceased's answer was, " That it was not fit that she and Morris should be in the same place together." Deceased then put on her cloak and bonnet and went out. Morris followed her, apparently in a great rage ; and witness went after them, and prevailed on her to return, which she did, but almost immediately ran off again, followed by Morris. Where they went, witness did not know. Witness then went into the mess pantry, where she found Morris and two other soldiers. He ordered the two men out, and told them, if they would come in the morning, hg would treat them with some ale. They went away, and he then threw himself on a bed, in a state of great excitement. Witness remonstrated with him, and asked him if he was mad. He got up off the bed, and looking into a looking-glass, said, " Do I look like a madman ?" He said he had 275. in his pocket, which belonged to a wine account, and that he would throw it over the wall in the morning. He then asked witness to come in, and close the door; but she refused. At this moment Mr. O'Grady came up ; and Morris said, " Let him come here, and 1 will smash his face for him, for what he said to me this morning." Witness told him, if he was disturbed about Isabella, it was very foolish of him, for she was , married ; and he could, there fore, never have her; to which he replied he was very fond of her, and if she would not have him she must never have anybody else. Witness then went into the kitchen, but: returned immediately, and found the deceased Mr. O'Grady in the pantry, remonstrating with him ; and he had taken his gun from him, and was requesting him to deliver up all his arms. Morris said, " What is the meaning of all this ?" to which Mr. O'Grady replied, " I will let : you know that in the morning." Witness did not see what Morris had in his hand ; but he made a push at Mr. O'Grady, with some thing that seemed to miss him, and he made another stab at him with the instrument. Witness heard Mr. O'Grady cry out, " Treachery !" and saw him put his hand. upon his side, and stumble into the officers' mess-room. Witness called out " Murder," and went back to the kitchen, and immediately returned, and saw Morris lying dead in the lobby ' • she ran dow n th e passage , an d w h en s h e, got to M r. O'Grady's room, she saw her daughter standing on the floor, bleeding. Witness asked what was the matter, to which the deceased answered, " I don't know," and then began to vomit. Witness asked who had done it, or was it Morris ; and she replied " No." Deceased remained sensible till her death, which occurred about twelve o'clock; but never gave any account of how the wounds were inflicted. Morris seemed very fond of her, and often said, if she world not have him, he would kill both her and himself.—By a juror : Did any struggle take place between Morris and Mr. O'Grady ? Witness : Not at that time.--By another juror : Had Mr. O'Grady any weapon in his band at that time?— Witness : No, sir, he had not. Such were the principal facts given in evidence. The inquiry was one of great length, occupying nine hours altogether. It was about seven o'clock in the evening when the jury, after a short de liberation, returned a verdict of Witfill Murder against Robert Morris, as to the bodies of Lieutenant O'Grady and Isabelia Territt ; and, as to Morris himself, their verdict was Felo de se. The corpse of Morris, the murderer and suicide, was in terred on Wednesday, at midnight, in the grave-yard of Trinity Church, adjoining the barracks. The strictest pri vacy was observed, and we understand that no burial service was performed; but, in other respects, the interment was the ordinary one. The mortal remains of the unfortunate young officer, were not interred on Thursday; they were awaiting directions from the deceased's family, some members of which were expected to arrive at Burnley i n th e course o f t h at d ay. We under stand that Lieutenant O'Grady had obtained leave of absence, to visit his mother; and that he had intended to proceed to Dublin for that purpose, in the course of the next week. The feelings of his widowed mother, looking forward with an ticipations of pleasure to a visit from a beloved child, and now to be harrowed and wrung by the distressing recital of the circumstances which have led to his untimely death, may be conceived ; bnt language would fail to depict them. We believe that the body of Isabella Territt has also been privately interred. In our former notice of this melancholy tragedy, we mentioned that she was the daughter of Mrs. Hadden, the mess-woman ; but we forgot to add, that her father, an Irishman, is also at the barracks, in the capacity of mess-man. In permitting the misconduct of their daugh ter, which has led to the catastrophe by which she has at length lost her life, and been the cause of death to two others, these wretched parents have much to answer for. Some blame is also attributable to that laxity of moral disciplide, in this respect, which this case has shown toexist sometimes, with perfect military discipline, order, and subordination. If the authorities at the Horse Guards could devise some plan by which there could be insured, in the domestic and social departments of the officers' mess-houses, such regula.. tions as to give them a character as respectable as private houses, not only would such scenes as that which we have now under notice be avoided, but another great social advan tage might be gained—the residence therein of the wives of officers ; who are now driven to a distance, into private lodg ings.,at a considerable cost, and to the sacrifice of much do mestic comfort and enjoyment. Some arrangement, by which a change could be effected, and to which the first step must be a removal of all improper characters from menial situa 'tions about the mess-houses, would redound to the credit of the authorities-at the Horse Guards ; and be, at least, as be neficial to the service as the alteration of a uniform, or the prescription or proscriptiotrof certain accoutrements, on drill or on parade. THEATRV-110Y. L, LIVERPOOL Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee, THE LAST FOUR NIGHTS, PIREVIOt 0 TILE COMMENCE- AIENT OF THE BENEFITS Mr. and Mrs. KEELEY, of the Theatres-Royal, Covent- Garden and Drury-Lane, are engaged for Four Nights, and will make their second appearance this present Even . ing, TUESDAY, Nov. 23. . MRS. CLARKE'S BENEFIT.--In consequence f the overflow in all parts of the Theatre last Evenin literal partier were prevented from obtaining adm• rt. :. All outstanding Tickets for Mrs. Clarke's Benefi ill ut ad mitted on this Night. The new Farce of " A. Lady and Gentlemar Perplexing Predicament," having been re 9 of laughter and applause, will be repe•i tr Mr. W. J. HAMMOND is engaged and will - make his first appearance /a Peculiarly .ived with shouts this Evening. a limited period, t this Theatre these Eleven Years on FRIDAY n e xt THIS present TUESDAY, Nov. 23, will be performed, a Drama, in three acts, called LUCILLE. Lucille Mrs. Keeley. I St. Cyr Mr. Stuart. After which, second time here, a petit Drama, called A LADY AND GENTLEMAN IN A PECULIARLY The Lady PERPLEXING PREDICAMENT. ... Mrs. Keeley. The Gentleman.. Mr. Keeley End of which, _ _ A Poliih Pas de Deux, by Master and Miss C. Webster To conclude with the Musical Farce of a LOAN OF A LOVER. • Peter Spyk.. Mr. Keeley. I Gertrude.. Mrs. Keeley On WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, favourite Entertain. merits, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will perform ; and on FRIDAY, for the Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, a favourite Comedy and Farce, on which occasion Mr. W. J. Hammond will make his first appearance at this Theatre these Eleven Years. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE -STREET, LIVERPOOL FALL of CANTON; ASSEMBLAGE of the NATIO ► ; PONY RACES; and FREDERICK, KING o PRUSSIA. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 23 nstant, 1. and during the Week, the Performances will • mmence with an entire New Equestrian Spectacle, called THE FALL OF CANTON ; OR, WAR WITH CHINA. Simon Goosequill Bisaba Mrs. F. Ca, an. After which, an entire New Allegori ca '.allot, called THE ASSEMBLAGE OF THE NATIONS, to congratulate Britannia on the Birth of a Prince of Wales. In the course of the Ballet the following Dances : The Highland Fling, by Madame Rosier; The Irish Jig, by Miss Davieson ; Of a Noble Race was Shenkin, by Miss Gilbert. SCENES IN THE ARENA, by Mr. Wells, Mr. Kite, and the Infant Equestrians. The whole to conclude with THE BLACK FOREST ; OR, FREDERICK, KING OF PRUSSIA. Frederick .. Mr. H. Beverly. Adelbert .. Mr. H. Howard. Rosalie Mrs. Emery. During the Season, the Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, commencing at Seven o'clock precisely, and to terminate as near Eleven as possible. TO CORRESPONDENTS EN' Zthrrpool ..)talfclarb. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1841 The Liverpool Journal, in its number of Saturday, enters a protest against what it anticipates as the plan of the Education Committee of the Council with re spect to the Corporation Schools ; but it is unable to raise any new objection, or add any novel argument to that series with which the public is well acquainted as flowing from the theological school of Romanism. It enters its protest, we presume, as the organ of the Church of Rome in this quarter, and in a strain which would lead us to surmise that the document was draWn up by a gownsmar , of the sacred college ; but, we re peat, it leaves the question just where it found it. He informs us of the Roman Catholic doctrine on the sub ject; we knew it already He calls upon us to recog nise that doctrine; we affirm . that we are not bound to do so to the extent he requires. In a country which has a Church Establishment, a dissenter from its worship has no right to ask that his religion shall be taught, or that its principles shall be favoured by the State. There is no one section of our numerous forms of dissent which makes such a de- mand, saving . and excepting that which of all others has the least right to make it; namely, that—for we class it under the head of dissent—that of the profess- ors of Romanism That the State has made some compliandes in this respect—compliances that 'may seem to warrant the demand of more—we admit; but these compliances have never met with the general sanction of the na- tion; they have been over and over again protested against; they form a subject of earnest controversy at this moment ; and, upon the whole, they constitute no precedent nor authority which can compel us to carry out the pfinciple or extend the rule to new cases. The Maynooth grant has not yet been cancelled; but sure we are of this, that the modest request made the other day by the Roman Catholic bishops to Earl de Grey in Dublin, that he would support their memorial to have that grant doubled, or greatly increased in amount, will not be complied with. But the demand of the Roman Catholics in Liver- pool, it will be said, is not to have their religion made a subject of instruction in the municipal institutions of the town, but simply that a well-known doctrine of their church may be respected therein, and that the Bible may not be opened as a class-book, or perused at all, by the children of their communion. '_►'his is what they ask; and upon this the question arises, have they any right to make such a demand, or is there intole rance, bigotry, or anything politically inexpedient, or improper, in refusing to comply with it ? Roman Catholics must be quite aware of their posi tion as a dissenting body, and as one small in number as compared with the great bulk of the population who belong to the Established Church. Politically, there fore, they have no right to come forward, and say, you must form your system of municipal or national in struction so as to agree with our peculiar tenets; they have, we shall say, no " right" to claim more than perfect liberty of conscience, and an unfettered discre tion to resist, or not',-to such public schools as the State, or its municipal institutions may provide, as they please. If they appear to solicit anything of this sort, they can only come as men who ask a favour--as men who claim a peculiar indulgence ; and the force of their application must depend altogether on the reasonable ness and justice of this request. "We pray," say they, "to supersede the Bible, so far as our children are concerned,—and for these two principal reasons : first, because we hold that there is an infallible inter position of Scripture which is of as much importance as the Scripture itself; and secondly, because we do not esteem your version of the Bible to be a correct one. This is the ground of our objection ; and we pray you to give it consideration." Such is the sub stance of the long article which appeared in the Jour nal • but we are at a loss to see how the writer fortifies his case by entering into these particulars. He is ad dressing himself, it should be remembered, to members of the Established Church, and to Protestants gene- rally, and to men therefore who reject the supposed equality of any human authority with that of Holy Writ as a most dangerous and blasphemous error, and who have as good reason to be satisfied with regard to the almost faultless perfection of our authorised version of the Bible, as they have as to any other well autho- rised and established fact whatever. Does our con_ temporary call then upon such men to stultify them_ selves,—to deny their faith,—and set their seal to the fabulous pretences of Romanism ? Does he expect them to say, we put aside the Bible, because Roman Catholic priests seek to have their word regarded as that of God, and claim a right to close its pages against all who presume to question their audacious assump tion; and also, because these same infallible priests a 1• lege that our Bible is an incorrect translation, notwith standing all the i ncon t e stible and overwhel m i ng evi dence which w e p osses s to the contrary ? C an any affirm this monstrosity, or do an act which would even rsinotely imply their asent to it ? We say then that In consequence of the unexpected demand for copies of the STANDARD containing the Rev. Hugh M'Neile's Lecture on the life of Dr. Franklin, we have had an extra issue of the paper, a few copies of which still remain on sale. We believe this is the only correct report of the splendid oration delivered by the reverend gentleman, as the pamphlet is announced to contain merely the " original notes ;" and. it is well known that the best specimens of Mr. M'Neile's oratory are the extemporaneous effusions by which he thrills his audience, and which are preserved in the STANDARD of Friday. The party who favoured us with an advertisement without a cash remittance, from Dumfries, may be far north, but we hail from Jahn o'Groat's house. We will hand the communication signed " W. T." to Mr. Brindley, who will make the best use of the facts adduced. In the letter of " P. S. J." in the STANDARD of Friday last, on the architecture of Great George -street Chapel, the word printed " En style" should have been " Eustyle." It is contrary to our practice to insert reviews of any pub lication unless the work be forwarded to us. We shall make some further inquiries as to the communica tion from a Student in Trinity College, Dublin, and in the meantime refer him to a letter in another column. the Journal has not • mended the case of his party entering into these grounds of their objection to t reformed or reztored schools ; he makes it worse puts it upon every Protestant to stand by his profe sion, and require the unreserved use of the Bible as necessary evidence that he does not in any degree, in any particular, recede from it; be makes it app that if they relax from their rule, it will be a prod tion that Roman Catholic priests have some found for what they allege. The explanation Of our Conte porary is therefore unfortunate; it is, in fact, conde: natory. As well might Roman Catholics say, we d believe and reject the Bible as a divine revelation, even as a good book, and therefore we must beg of y not to teach it to our children. Could the Educati Committee, in that case, pay the least attention to th remonstrance,? Could they agree to cast such d honour on the word of God ? Impossible it wo u only tend to confirm them in their resolution, if the had before pny doubt on the subject, to unfurl ti: standard of divine truth in all their establishment: and maintain it against all gainsayers. The magnitude of the blessing which has been con ferred upon the kingdom by the late change which ha taken place in the administration, cannot be so easil; estimated by a constant residence in . England, as h one who sojourns in a part of the empire where th complexion of everything that belongs to social hap piness is deeply and immediately reflected by the cha racter of the executive. It is an easy matter to goveri those who are themselves willing to be governed. If ordinary times, what more easy than to conduct tip office of the Home Department with reference to till mere preservation of peace and order within the con. fines of Great Britain ? Englishmen are then their is unfortunately the case, in a very great degree, with Ireland; and hence we have been led to watch with so much anxiety the effects, in that country, of the late important transfer of power from Radical to Conserva tive keeping. The Whigs used to tell us, in their day, of the marvellous influence of their government in producing tranquillity; but their proofs were not by any means satisfactory. The police returns showed a positive and most serious augmentation of every species of criminal offence; Tipperary was as fruitful as ever in homicides ; and through - Leinster, Ulster, Munster, Captain Rock was still the boy to - snake the fun stir. Nor was this all ; political agitation never was more rife L—never so exacting. The agitators had only one more demand to make, and they made it; they now talked pretty freely of having the country all to them selves. Such was the state of Ireland under the Whigs, whilst they were most complacently telling of what great things they had effected. Facts, however, are stubborn things; and not all the hardihood of Whig assertion, nor all its powers of face, could get over these. They had one answer for all attacks—the same sponge to wipe out all reproaches—namely, that if there were some evils under their popular, liberal, fostering, and most parental regime, they were inevi table; but if there were such under their administra tion, what must he expected under the accession of a party so fearfully obnoxious as the Tories ? It was awful to contemplate, they said, what might happen in the eventuation of anything so calamitous. Such was the re ply which was to silence all objections, whilst, to give it the greater effect, the mighty " Daniel" played terma gant, and we may shortly, and yet emphatically say, did his utmost to " keep out the Tories." • Well, the Tories came in in spite of all this ; the argument ad terrorem failed, and some little time has now elapsed since the Tories have been in and the Whigs out; and it is not altogether premature to " take stock," or t refer to the books, arid see in what way our balances stand. With reference to crime, we find two murders, but one certainly which we are obliged to connect with the Ribbon or RDckite system, and from the commis sion of which we are bound' to admit that that most detestable conspiracy has not yet been broken up. The Conservative ministry cannot by any means pretend to have subdued this hydra ; but in this respect, if they have gained nothing, neither have they lost. The Whigs did not subdue it during a long ten years of office, with every opportunity of tracing his lair, and destroying the monster in his den ; nay, never was he more rampant, or more the terror of an awe-struck world, than just during the mild sway of Lord Nor manby, and the other favourites of her Majesty's chief agitator in those parts. On the score of tranquillity generally, however, it appears that Ireland is not less, if she is not a great deal more at rest, under her new than she was under her late government. The healthy tone of feeling which has been cotmnunicated to the friends of good order since the new authorities entered upon their functions, is pregnant evidence on this head ; it is the strongest token of an improvement; it is a great improvement in itself. But the grand tri umph of the Conservative minister consists in this. that his official career, short as it is, furnishes a living contradiction to all the empty boastings, threatenings, prophecies, and lies, so long and so profusely poured out by his opponents. The spell is broken—the charm is dissolved—even the name of " Daniel O'Connell" cannot now raise an insurrection. The masses endure the new authorities with the most surprising patience; some of old llan's " joints" have already begun to play the courtier ; there have been several remarkable defections from his principles ; the spirit of the Vicar of Bray has confessedly taken possession of a number of his ecclesiastical corps, and foul scurrility has ceased to flow even from his own tongue with its wonted ala crity. The Conservatives reign, and yet the threat ened storm does not rise. Last week the new government obtained a signal attestation to the truth of what we represent, at Earl de Grey's first levee, which was, it is said, the most numerously and respectably attended of any ever held in Ireland before or subsequently to the 20th August, 1821, when his late Majesty George the Fourth held a royal levee in Dublin. On this occasion the arch demagogue seems to have been ridden by his evil genius ; and the opportunity which he looked to as that which should greatly gratify his own vanity, and exalt him in the eyes of his deluded followers, proved to be the source of his most distressful mortification. He had to endure the painful spectacle of her Majes ty's Conservative representative being honoured in the most signal manner by the homage of all the most distinguished and esteemed persons in the country, and to feel in his own person the ludicrous contrast which he exhibited, notwithstanding his official robes, when, as if it was manifest to all, he was making an attempt to ascertain what figure he, as represeutative of the disaffected, should make in comparison with the viceroy himself. This failure afforded the utmost merriment to all his foes. So unnerved was he by the expression which he observed on every countenance, that lie completely forgot his part as courtier—attempt ed to enter the presence chamber with his hat on— committed a positive breach of etiquette by having his sword-bearer to precede him—and after meeting with a frigid, nay, freezing reception, went off the stage with awkward exit, amid the jeers and titters of all beholders. Alas' for the great three-tailed bashaw, so long the terror of all Whigs, and the hard task -master of their obsequious cabinet ! 'Behold him dressed up in a Lord Mayor's suit, only to make his downfall the more con- spicuous ! Ay, wrap him up in a scarlet cloak, (his church is partial to the colour,) and put a cocked hat on his head; yea, put a gold chain round him, and adorn him with pins, buckles, and other ornaments; and then let him "Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross, To see the old woman—. With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,--" And then—we may as well finish it-- " We'll have plenty of music wherever she goes." Do all this, we say, yet you cannot make a " silk purse of a sow's ear ;" the interior, the essential rottenness will remain; and it wants but a puff of air to strip the own peace-preservers. They are satisfied with their institutions; they have no desire to change them; and the great bulk of the people would be little affected by a change of ministers of any ordidary character. But all this is different in a country or in a part of the kingdom where the internal disposition to peaceable government is wanting; where discontent prevails; and where, so far from an approval of the existing or der of things, there is a constant and very general de sire for its subversion. Here everything depends on the hand that rules; all ranks of the people are in stantly and most sensibly affected by the character of the living authority; and their very pulse moves in unison with his. It will be readily conceded that such posed afely pronoun( in the house of the charlatan for the country of w preeminently the curse the absence of excitem ace of that highly flattering eircurnst anco that her new The adoption of a system c ment—w to feed the bloated and unwieldy thing in whose growth are embarked the peace and security of Great Britain, and whose course is to desolate and to trample down the industry of other nations. On the contrary, we are satisfied that it would be a source of grief and bitterness to our manufacturing free-traders to see any considerable number of the distressed population of Great Britain deported from the scene of their wretch edness, by a humane effort of legislation, and allowed to establish themselves in a land of plenty, and in a condition of well-rewarded industry; and that they would infinitely prefer seeing them pine on, under the wasting hand of poverty, as sores upon the face of the land, to subserve the ends of agitation, until they can be subjected to the torture of that state of " transition" 'hich they must pass through before the tillers of the soil—the hardy yeomanry and agricultural labourers of Great Britain—can be converted into the living mechanism required to attend a spinning-jenny or a wer-loom We nothing fear, however, that the government of Sir Robert Peel will be driven from its wise and humane purposes by the sneers or the threats of an unprincipled and disaffected faction. A noble field of exertion is before them. They have within their reach the means of extending- British influence—of ex tendin g British commerce to a degree almost incalculable. They have within their reach the means of adding, almost without limit, to the sum of human happiness and to the spread of civilization. They have the power of establishing the supremacy of the British name throughout the world and for ever ; and they will not, we are satisfied, neglect the opportunity. In connexion with the subject of emigration from Great Britain and Ireland to our colonial possessions, there is one subject—scarcely second to it in im portance—to which the government of Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley may at this moment consistently devote a portion of its attention. Need we .say that we allude to the subject of immigration of the free labourers of other countries into our West Indian colonies ? In the securing of an adequate supply of labour in those inexhaustible and fertile mines of wealth, what vast benefits to the interests of British commerce—what invaluable results to the interests of humanity itself—are involved ! With proper culture, the colonies of Great Britain are sufficient to supply, with their products, the markets of the whole world. They demand only to be furnished with hands to till their rich soils and to gather the fruits of their teeming luxuriance; and in return, they offer to the British merchant the benefit of their increased production of British produce and manufactures. Already, by the encouragement which Ims of late years been given to the trade with our Eastern Em pire, the importance of that portion of our possessions, as a consumer of British manufactures, is rapidly de veloping itself. In Bengal the imports of cotton goods from Great Britain nearly tripled themselves within the last three years, as will be seen from an authentic statement which we quote : In 1837-38 the value of cotton piece goods 59,00,000 Rs. 1838-39 72,00,000 1839-10 1840.41 138,00,000 and in woollen goods the increase is extraordinary— ;he value of the imports of this staple manufacture ming— imported was, In 1837-38 1838-39 1839-40 1840-41 In haberdashery, iron, malt liquor, hardware, and other articles, the increase is in a similar ratio. 9,00,000 Rs 7,00,000 9,00,000 17,00,000 That a similar result would attend the development of the mighty capabilities of our West Indian posses- sions we cannot doubt ; and at a time when we are threatened with exclusion from the markets of the Brazils, unless we consent to measures hostile to Bri tish interests in those islands; it cannot surely be out of season to call the attention of the government and of the colonial office to the important and pressing na ture of the question. With a supply of labour, at all adequate to their wants, our West Indian colonies would speedily he in a position to fear no hostile efforts of the anti-colonial faction here, and as little to dread any foreign competition; and we are satisfied that an enquiry instituted by government would at once elicit the fact, that the means of transport to those colonies are alone wanting to secure the object which the colo nists have in view, and at the same time to provide for the languishing commerce and manufactures of the mother country a market far more than able to supply any deficiency which can arise from the threatened de fection of the Brazils. We have the more confident hope that the import ance of this subject will impress itself upon the govern ment, from the character and identity of the distin guished statesman who now holds the seals of the colonial office, and under whose notice it must come. To Lord Stanley we owe the carrying out, without the commission of injustice, of the noble measure of negro emancipation; and we cannot believe that his lordship, watching as he must have done the working of that measure, can be unconscious of the fact that, by its consequences, as evinced in the prosperity or decline of the West Indies, must stand or f4ll the question whe ther slavery is to cease throughout the world, or to be perpetuated in a harsher form, and with added cruel• ties in every land save that of England and her colo nies. A large and liberal measure of immigration will ensure to those colonies a permanent and solid prospe rity, which will proclaiiii to the world that free labour can compete upon equal terms with slavery —that the cause of humanity is not a losing cause ;--,an d without such a measure we are confident that the progress of litable means to promote that gration, upon a large and comprehensive scale—a measure which is at length taken up in earnest by her Majesty's govern' regard, as indeed, we expressed in our last publication, as one of infinite importance to a commer cial and manufacturing community. At the present moment too, with the stagnation and distress which we see around us, its consideration is peculiarly well- timed ; for we are quite satisfied that it cannot have escaped the notice of the government, and must be impressed by them upon the community, that the true source of the commercial greatness of this country, the mainstay, at all times, of her manufacturing in dustry, are to be found in her vast and increasing co lonial possessions. " Our Colonies " writes a London contemporary, th e Morning lierald, "are certainly our most profitable ex ternal customers ; our population at home is rapidly descend ing into pauperism ; thousands are desirous, in the agony 0f their present wretchedness, to transfer their labour to those dependencies where their services are in demand ; and by such transfer, numbers who are now a burden on the rest of the community, might undoubtedly be converted into valu able consumers of our products. New sources of revenue to the state, new channels of employment for the people, ne w fields for advantageous investment of the capital of the we t:;:ty, would, it cannot be denied, be created by the en' eouragement of emigration to the territorial colonies of th e United Kingdom." And yet we venture to predict, that the proposition of any measure by which the admitted disposition of numbers of our impoverished fellow-countrymen to make that transfer of their industry to our colonies i 3 to be encouraged, will be met, by the unprincipled spouters of the free trade agitation, with a sneer of contempt, if not even with a shout of execration and disappointment. " The philosophers" can see nothing which lies beyond the day or the hour. The perma nent strength of the empire—the permanent comfort add happiness of its people—are not the objects of their care, or towards which their truculent agitation is directed. They never descend to weigh the benefit to be derived from a commerce with free and indepen dent British people, established in happy affluence in our distant colonies—consuming the best fabrics of our looms .and favouring exclusively the products of the mother country—and those to be reaped from a scramble in the markets of the world for a temporary supremacy,—at the sacrifice of the comforts and the moral welfare of the labouring population at home, whose very heart's blood is systematically wrung from them drop by drop to purchase and to sustain of which it is corn- ruin has commenced nd it is a happy omen One of Ireland' been so long and so chief wants and a discon- tito , ,zether ; and it is